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 Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.  The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. An honest God is the noblest work of man. Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrows, is good; that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short. Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content! Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does. Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us, but we've forgotten how to listen. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength. Where they make a desert, they call it peace. - Tacitus Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy. - Starhawk Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence. Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all. The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island! There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. 
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