Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Laurie Halse Anderson

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Anne Lamott

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
~ Anne Lamott
Jeffrey Eugenides

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
~ Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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