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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When you’re trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact that you’re even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow yourself to be good enough.”

— Alice Domar

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“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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“If outside validation is your only source of nourishment, you will hunger for the rest of your life.”

— Unknown

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“When it hurts, observe. Life is trying to teach you something.”

— Anita Krizzan

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Ghost Of My Ghosts, Sol Rios

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Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel

[Text ID: “I knew that, despite everything, I was loved. I was loved hard. At once and forever against the loveless world.”]

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Rainer Maria Rilke, from Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose; "An Experience,"

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Arthur Rimbaud, from The Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud; "A Season In Hell,"

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Louise Glück, from Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems; "Afternoons & Early Evenings,"

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Arthur Rimbaud, from The Complete Works of Arthur Rimbaud; "A Season In Hell,"

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Joseph Brodsky, from The Selected Poems of Joseph Brodsky; "The New Jules Verne,"

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Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrammes: "The Sighs of the Gunner from Dakar,"

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George Sand, from a letter to Gustave Flaubert written c. September 1971