"Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace."

 Howard Thurman

"Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, you shall possess the good of the earth and sun…. there are millions of suns left, you shall no longer take things at second or third hand…. nor look through the eyes of the dead…. nor feed on the spectres in books, you shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself."

― Walt Whitman

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To know thy self is only possible through the eyes of another.

Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

—Sonmi-451 (Cloud Atlas)

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