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"Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."

"You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer."

"Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more."
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"So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend."


"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life."


"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."


"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."


"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."


"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."


"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."
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