"What I love is the courage, the efforts, and the truthfulness. Strength is a rhythm, not an absolute."
- Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947
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"You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There’s a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can’t alter."
- Joyce Carol Oates, I Am No One You Know (via quotespile)

mydailybookquotes:

“The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.”

-Toni Morrison, Sula

mydailybookquotes:

“I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom.”

-Toni Morrison

mydailybookquotes:

“I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list.”

-Mary Oliver

mydailybookquotes:

“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: yours is the darkness of my soul’s return – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”

-E.E. Cummings

Happy 125th Birthday to E.E. Cummings!

"If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are."
- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
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