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At Last! Some Wednesday Wisdom

8/29/2018

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​Ever since I switched from weekly posts to a twice-a-month posting schedule, I've been depriving you, dear readers, of the end-of-month collections of wisdom that many of you have told me you enjoy. When I noticed that this month has an extra Wednesday, I thought I'd throw in a bonus post with tidbits I've been collecting over the summer.
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​Be tender to each other, teach a kid to read, laugh, be more tender than yesterday, repeat, ad infinitum.
-- Brian Doyle
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​It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
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​Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
-- Carlos Fuentes
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​Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
-- Theodore Roethke
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​In a way, nobody sees a flower, really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time—like to have a friend takes time.
-- Georgia O'Keeffe
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​Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.
-- David Orr
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​The quest for knowledge can be never-ending, because when you find out one thing, you want to know more. It's the joy of being a human: we're curiosity with arms and legs.
-- Sylvia Earle, The Sun magazine, July 2018
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​Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
-- Truman Capote
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​My theory is that everyone, at one time or another, has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
-- Alice Hoffman
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​The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch
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​The most solid advice . . . for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
-- William Saroyan
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​Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.
-- Muriel Rukeyser
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 ​The heart pounds away, day after day, so synced up to our every movement we don't even notice. Yet it sustains us. Soft and vulnerable beneath our breast, it's no wonder this big, red muscle is the universal symbol for loving and feeling. To live is to feel. To love is to survive together. Our tender hearts connect our inner worlds with the lives all around us.
-- Claire Ciel Zimmerman, Mindful magazine, June 2017
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​[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still, the rise and fall and rise and fall of all of it, the incoming and the outgoing, the infinite procession of life. And the ocean wraps the earth, a reminder. The mysteries come forward in waves.
-- Susan Casey

By the way, I'll be continuing the twice-a-month posting schedule rather than weekly posts, for a bit longer, posting on the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
Here are the dates for the next few months' posts:
September 5
Septembe 19
October 3
October 17
November 7
November 21
December 5
​December 19


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Sue Schneider
8/30/2018 05:25:11 pm

Thanks for adding a bonus end of the month post. Too many favorite quotes to name. Really valuable, thought providing words. Thanks Nan, you continue to inspire.

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