"Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair."

-- Joan D. Chittister

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“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”
“I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.”
“In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.”
“To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.”
“Documentary: Thatâ€™s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clearâ€¦ The term should be documentary styleâ€¦ You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.”
“Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.”
“If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.”
“look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're a wolf, or when you're shifting, you don't have human inhibitions, so if you're naturally angry or violent, you get worse.”

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