Have Your Way With Paper

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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
~Dawna Markova

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Wisdom is to be gained only as we stand upon the shoulders of those who have gone before. by Learned Hand, 2oth century jurist

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. by Albert Schweitzer

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WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.

WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY
HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

"Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born". Erma Bombeck

"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." ~ Ivy Baker

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start now and make a brand new ending."
~ Carl Bard

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I just finished Jan Karon's Home to Holly Springs (something of a continuation to her Mitford series). Somehow this was the perfect book to read during our time in Kansas. This is a poem in it, so appropriate:

Life
Paul Laurence Dunbar

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh but the moans come double;
And that is life!

A crust and a corner that love makes precious,
With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us;
And joy seems sweeter when cares come after,
And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter;
And that is life!

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From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1922

If you wan to be happy, BE
~Tolstoy