"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
-Barbara Kingsolver
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"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.“
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"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
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"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."
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"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
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"People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
-John Keats
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
-Khalil Gibran
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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