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Restoration = Re-story-ation

What a beautiful idea, that the restoration of anything — your peace of mind, for example, or the vitality of our Earth — depends upon learning how to tell ourselves new stories.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.

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Because she was clear about what she didn’t want, she was alone. She was no longer who she used to be, and she wasn’t yet whoever she was becoming.

- Ann Napolitano Hello Beautiful

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"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing. Same direction. Completely different energy." James Clear

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"Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else." - Cormac McCarthy

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“It’s hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.” – Susan Sontag

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"It’s a huge gift that the two places where I spend much of my time–church and recovery circles–are suffused with the Resurrection. Daily I see light shining in the midst of darkness, broken lives beginning to be made whole, humor defeating despair, random acts of kindness, the fruit of humble, contrite hearts (usually with lots of swearing), prayer in action. We leave politics, ideology and outside issues at the door and deal, in the roughest, most seemingly ordinary, humdrum ways with our spirits, our consciences, our hearts and our souls." Heather King

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“The tenderness that he clearly had for humanity and the space he gave to creativity and expression of imagination, I see that in everything that he did.”

Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson, Idea Man

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"As with most people on Earth, shame is a part of my life, installed at a young age and frequently updated with shame service packs." - Paul Ford

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"If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."

- Bertrand Russell

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"Optimism is like ice cream: as much as I try to remind myself it’s bad for me and I should stay away, I’m human, can’t help a tiny taste, and the next thing you know, I’m digging into the whole carton, gulping it down, and it always ends with me feeling sick and wanting to throw up…"

Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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Progress is a drug

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“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”

― Henry Rollins

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“After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because it has become gradually harder and harder to believe that it is actually going to happen. Every February since 1940 I have found myself thinking that this time winter is going to be permanent. But Persephone, like the toads, always rises from the dead at about the same moment. Suddenly, towards the end of March, the miracle happens and the decaying slum in which I live is transfigured.”

― George Orwell

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“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!” 
― Sitting Bull

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"We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”

― Hermann Hesse

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"The past, were I to type it up, would look like a disaster, but regardless of how it ended we all had many good days."

"It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true. Our Town taught me that."

- Ann Patchett Tom Lake

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"Wherever you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense."

Thornton Wilder, Our Town