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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it”. 

~ Henry David Thoreau

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 “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

~ Ernest Hemingway

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I loved Kenneth Branagh's "Belfast." The story, the acting, the cinematography were all on point. Branagh's love letter to his youth brought the Troubles to life and had me riveted.

Buddy:"Daddy, do you think me and that wee girl have a future?

Dad: And why the heck not?

Buddy: Did you know that she's a Catholic?

Dad: Buddy, that wee girl can be a practicing Hindu, or a Southern Baptist, or a vegetarian antichrist. If she is kind, she's fair, and you two respect one another, she and her people are welcome in our house any day of the week."

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“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plateglass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you’re picking up the pieces.” - Saul Bellow

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"We live our lives forward and understand them backward.” Kierkegaard

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“What is the body? Endurance. What is love? Gratitude. What is hidden in our chests? Laughter. What else? Compassion.” -Rumi

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"There's something about not playing small in a world that always makes you feel that way that is an act of bravery and beauty like no other." - Stacy London https://www.tiktok.com/@stylelikeu/video/7051678786324303151

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"One of the greatest gifts that the Museum has given to me is boredom. Because if you're really bored, then you find things to learn. My imagination is being engaged with all this amazing artwork around. And you can go anywhere in your head. You can be anywhere." - Emilia Fox-Lemock, "Worn Stories" (Netflix), Uniforms episode

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Growing up is about surviving long enough so that you can find the person you were always meant to be. - Matt, in "Worn Stories," "Growing up"

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For better, for worse but never for granted.

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"So this is where the dead go in our imaginations: They continue to live with us in the moments when we are sad and terrified. They cheer for us. They give us unbelievable strength and the courage we lack to carry on in situations. They coax us through. They lead us where we need to be, to experience the joy and capability that was them. They who have been with us in life manage to teach us how and where in death we can listen for them and find their voices and essence again."

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“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” ― Jamie Anderson

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Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Addair

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Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.

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Plunging into the ocean of words, roaming in the broad fields of the mind, climbing the mountains of the imagination. Just like the kid in the Carnegie or the student in Widener, that was my freedom, that was my joy. And it still is.

That joy must not be sold. It must not be “privatised,” made into another privilege for the privileged. A public library is a public trust.

And that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, and that’s everyone, when they need it, and that’s always. - Ursula LeGuin

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"You find the universal through the specific. Details are what draw you in." - Margaret Dilloway

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- We have the capacity to find joy in all things. A negative attitude is worse than a tumor. The best of life can come from the worst of life. - Everyone has a difficult trial. Everyone. Be compassionate. - When your looks get taken away, you better have a solid character or you're screwed. - Priorities are revealed when abilities are stripped. Put them in order before life forces it upon you. - No one learns in the middle of a crisis. Survive. Breathe. Reflect. - Life is too short to take offense. Assume the best and move on. One day our children will struggle. We must endure our own trials so that, when needed, we can look in their eyes with perfect credibility and say, "I've been through the same struggle. I know your pain. You can do this." By Mark A. Smith, 23 years ago today my parents and doctor walked into my ICU room, held my hands, and told me I had only a few months to live. I had a rare disease called Wegener's Granulomatosis and had 18 tumors throughout my lungs, kidneys, and airway. 16 years of chemotherapy, 200,000+ pills, 34 surgeries, and a million prayers later and I'm still around

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"You can’t transform mountebanks into menschen. Character is like concrete: You can make an impression when it’s freshly poured, in its youth, one could say, but when it sets, it’s impervious to alteration. 

Trump has always been vile, dishonorable and dishonest. That hasn’t changed even when draped by the history, majesty and pageantry of the presidency." - Charles M Blow,  Satan in a Sunday Hat, July 31, 2017

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"Some of us are surrounded by destructive people who tell us we’re worthless when we’re endlessly valuable, that we’re stupid when we’re smart, that we’re failing even when we succeed. But the opposite of people who drag you down isn’t people who build you up and butter you up. It’s equals who are generous but keep you accountable, true mirrors who reflect back who you are and what you are doing.

We keep each other honest, we keep each other good with our feedback, our intolerance of meanness and falsehood, our demands that the people we are with listen, respect, respond—if we are allowed to, if we are free and valued ourselves. There is a democracy of social discourse, in which we are reminded that as we are beset with desires and fears and feelings, so are others"- Rebecca Solnit, THE LONELINESS OF DONALD TRUMP: ON THE CORROSIVE PRIVILEGE OF THE MOST MOCKED MAN IN THE WORLD

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“We can’t expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.” Gwen Ifill, American journalist, television newscaster, and author (September 29, 1955 – November 14, 2016)

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History is a vast early warning system. -Norman Cousins, editor and author (24 Jun 1915-1990)