"We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs."

Metaphor, Travel, Survival, Adaptation

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"We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs."

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"No sensible person ever made an apology."

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"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows."

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"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."

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"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."

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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."

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Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Poetry isn't an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn't a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn't swimming. Poetry is water."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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