"How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy,But droop his tender wing,And forget his youthful spring?"

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Earth, Legacy, Truth, Choices

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Vision is the end of religion."

Insight

"Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

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"But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay."

Life

"A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage."

Philosophy

"I wander through each chartered street,Near where the chartered Thames does flow;A mark in every face I meet,Marks of weakness, marks of woe.In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear:How the chimney-sweeper's cryEvery blackening church appals,And the hapless soldier's sighRuns in blood down palace-walls.But most, through midnight streets I hearHow the youthful harlot's curseBlasts the new-born infant's tear,And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse."

Society

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

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"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

"My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death."

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"Vision is the end of religion."

"Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

"But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay."

"A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage."

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

"As a man is so he sees."

"There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find."

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."