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I want to be an adaptable engine of good. I want to be a machine that can run on a variety of fuels. Love. Wonder. Empathy. Fear. Anger. The fuel is not the machine. Motivations are not actions. I will accept whatever moves me forward, knowing I still choose the path.

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I am creating a life i don’t want to run from i am creating a life i don’t want to run from i am creating a life i don’t want to run from

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Any tips for not falling into permanent despair?

I suppose remembering that there is no greater act of defiance that living a full life

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Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

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“The planet does not need more ‘successful people.’ The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”

— Dalai Lama

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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

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“Art is when you smile”

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People who wound us get no say in how we clean up the blood.

Harriet Selina

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from a diary entry featured in Earthly Signs Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922

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Simone de Beauvoir, from "Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel,"

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Sayat Nova, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "I traveled the world"

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when I was younger I didn’t understand why “may you live in interesting times” was considered a curse in ancient greece.

I get it now.

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