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Teach your children not only how to love but how to be loved.

Michelle K., Teachers

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You are a language I am no longer fluent in but still remember how to read.

Ashe Vernon

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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.

Bell Hooks

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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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Give people time. Give people space. Don’t beg anyone to stay. Let them roam. What’s meant for you will always be yours.

Reyna Biddy

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It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.

Myra McEntire, Hourglass

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Aleister Crowley

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