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“But we are more than logical” #9

To love is to stop comparing.
-Bernard Grasset
Remarques sur l’action

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“If you wish to know what a person is…” #5

The [person] who is always having… feelings hurt is about as pleasant a companion as a pebble in the shoe.
-Elbert Hubbard

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #45

The present contains all there is. It is holy ground.
-Alfred North Whitehead

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #29

The cure for anything is salt water-sweat, tears, or the sea.
-Isak Dineson

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“Sweet, sour, bitter, pungent…” #3

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
-Pierre Corneille
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than its value.
-Charles Dudley Warner
We’ve all had experience giving and recieving gifts, and many opportunities to observe others doing the same. Recreate a scene from memory, or create an original [...]

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #9

Minor amusements keep us from bogging down. They remind us that every previous crisis or recession eventually ended.
-Richard J. Cattani

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #10

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still had to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life will begin. At last it dawned on me [...]

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“How do you make a life?…” #4

That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after an illness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps
Essays on Things

Describe your own experience with realizing the joy of “a normal day.” Use an autobiographical or fictional approach. Or write from the [...]

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #27

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
-John Fowles

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“We are each of us unique.” #1

Each of us is a biography, a story… Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives, we are each of us unique.
-Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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