the little yellow diary

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." — Rudyard Kipling

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When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.
— Frederick Buechner

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The future is unwritten. There are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. Both of them are great fun to write about if you’re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario.
— Bruce Sterling

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You have to have the nerve to take the risks, enough intelligence to understand which risks are worth taking, and enough talent to get it done.
— Simon Rothman
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Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’

Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Celebration when your plan is working? Anyone can do that. But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that’s when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong… that’s celebration.
— Shauna Niequist

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
— T.S. Eliot

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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.
— Thich Nhat Hanh

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Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.
— One Tree Hill

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What is there but a dream? You can’t trade in your dream for another dream. Dream big, and dream fierce!
— Viola Davis
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Dream big, and dream fierce.
— Viola Davis
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It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
— Shauna Niequist

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The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
— Bob Moawad

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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
— Henry David Thoreau

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
— Eddie Cantor

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