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The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

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Wendy Mass
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 22
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Livingston
New Jersey
May
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Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.
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And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny. - Timaeus by Plato 427-347 B.C.
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comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.
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Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.
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My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt. And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.
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I've learned that almost anyone will help if you ask for it.
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Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know what you’ll learn when you open one. And if it’s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.
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I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.
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Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.
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I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, I'm sparkling, you'll have a whole different energy and experience.
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You take the flotsam, I tell her, I'll take the jetsam. You always get the jetsam,she says pretending to pout. Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.
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Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
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Whoa! she says as I plow into her. What are you DOING? Get off me! I hang on tight. Can't a girl just hug her big sister? She stops fighting me. Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. No one died. Then get off!
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I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?
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(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and...it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.
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