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Perspectives

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Winston Churchill

Repaying

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human genorisity and to just keep saying thankyou, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

Elizabeth Gilbert, in Eat, Pray, Love

Be yourself

Nous Sommes si accoutumes a nous deguiser aux autres qu’enfin nous nous deguisons a nous-memes.  (We get so used to disguising ourselves to others that we end up becoming disguised to ourselves.)

La Rochefoucauld,  Maximes 119

Is it?

When you aspire for something with passion, all the universe conspires to make it happen.

Paulo Coelho, in The Alchemist

Hello world!

How that time has passed away,
dark under the cover of night,
as if it had never been!

From The Wanderer, an Old English elegy from the 10th century.