"Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes."

-- Bill Crawford

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“Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.”

Source : Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge (1849). “Ambarvalia: Poems”, p.14
“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”
“The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.”
“It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.”

Source : Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.25, Routledge
“You can't force music; It just has to come to you.”
“The greatest things I have learned from Coach Dungy would have to be humility and consistency. He truly leads by example, and he does it consistently. This allows people to really see his faith every single day, and that's the most important thing.”
“Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the converse is equally true...From this perspective, every spiritual exercise is a dialogue, insofar as it is an exercise of authentic presence, to oneself and to others.”

Source : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 91), 2001.
“I can't write on the road. I have to be home. I have to be around all those rusted tractors and dilapidated fences and things like that, because it just grounds me in a way that I can't find in a hotel room.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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