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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to lov

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. – Mary Oliver

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When its over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. – Mary Oliver

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You live and let live. And eventually, that becomes enough. – Author Unknown

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In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. – Liz Armbruster, on rbrault.blogspot.com

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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. – Ramakrishna

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Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

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