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The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.
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Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.
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Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.
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Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.
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Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.
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But God never seems capable of moderation
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Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.
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Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it. - Jaques
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Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.
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I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.
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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.
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In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.
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The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
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You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.
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May my living be grace to those behind me.
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Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
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