someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Pablo Neruda

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Sigmund Freud, Letter to fiancée Martha Bernays

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it's not that i'm so smart. but i stay with the questions much longer. 

albert einstein

i believe in kindness. also in mischief. also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. 

mary oliver

"whatever comes," 

she said, 

"cannot alter one thing. 

if I am a princess in rags and tatters, 

i can be a princess inside. 

it would be easy to be a princess 

if I were dressed in cloth of gold, 

but it is a great deal more of a triumph 

to be one all the time 

when no one knows it. "

frances hodgson burnett, a little princess

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