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If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.
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women
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.
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women
feminist
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
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independence
philosophy
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
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life
stories
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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she said to me.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset. "Let's cook," Frannie said energetically. "We will smell so good that they'll all come running." She picked up a bowl, filled it with apples from the barrel, and immediately began to cut them up. I put water to boil, got out cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, lard, flour, sugar, salt, salera..
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motivation
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again.... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then the dim ones must be far and farther away, and toward those reaches I hurled my soul.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.
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philosophy
psychology
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
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violence
life
nonviolence
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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What, in nature," Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?" "The Dismals," Giles answered promptly. "A beautiful aberration in the lay of the land--North Alabama. A section mysteriously lowered, strewn with boulders, ferny, mossy, cooler--the vegetation, they say, typical of Canada. There the creek runs clear, but all other Alabama rivers and waterways are muddy with sediment. I even like the name--the Dism..
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Her eyes were as green as the sea, and forever I forgave the sea for not appearing blue.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what she thought, but I knew that the question must be of greater interest to someone of her age than to me. But our conversation had been completely honest, and before I could speak, honesty and tact had joined hands in my answer. "I have no faith at all," I said, "but sometimes I have hope." I rather think," she replied, "that total annih..
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mortality
nature
life
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often fill the gap.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Do you think yourself a string too short to save? Do you think that you are lank and straight, a linear bit with no connection fore or aft? Fear not your insignificance. Nature has a drawer for you. Yes, nature garners all the string too short to save, and mice visit that drawer. Here's nesting material! Yes, you will be interwoven, be it now or later.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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I feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily visible of all the sinful emotions, but sorrow can enhance one's sweetness and appeal. Resentment, the empress says, is like a snake that nests in the bosom, and it can turn and strike her who harbors it.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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You are my Easter.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
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philosophy
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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S IS THE SOUND of the sea. Her surge and suck, her spray and surf. Sometimes she seethes. She knows the sound of smooth. With her s, the sea marries the shore, and then there is scamper and slush in the sand. With curling s's the sea rises to stroke the side of her superior, the sky, who loves and meets her in the s of spray, spawned in liquid and air.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
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virtue
vice
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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f326887
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Deberia tener la capacidad de ser feliz conmigo misma, de estar satisfecha con lo que soy. No como reina, sino con lo que soy.
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self-acceptance
self-esteem
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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2be80a4
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I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seemed a meditative winding, and what I was winding was like yarn on an oblong skein, softly enfolding a quiet center that was myself.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold herself to be so special that only one special person could she find satisfactory.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Al dia de hoy, al comprender la habilidad del mundo para presionarme hasta que haga lo que no hago, he madurado. Con que actitud desempeno mi papel, eso depende unicamente de mi.
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life-lessons
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Rousseau pensaba que era bueno estar solo a veces y que quiza nuestras naturalezas florecian con la maxima pureza en esas ocasiones.
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self-growth
meditation
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Reading, he claims, would broaden my experience of the world. The ideas to be found in serious books would deepen my thinking about every choice I make.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays.
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words
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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I rather regretted that I did not myself have a sister who was a friend and with whom I could compare myself, the better to understand both my singularity and our commonality.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Beware the treachery of words, Mrs Sparrow. They mean one thing to one person and the opposite to another.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Perhaps Vulnerability was a land that, for some people, could never be entirely traversed.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Quiza mi vida no es mas que una serie de momentos de vestirse y desvestirse de nuevo para la tarea en cuestion.
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life-philosophy
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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0e4f1a0
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Como puede uno comer cuando el corazon esta ocupado?
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love
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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6ad5f85
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What do you think of God," I asked, "for testing the loyalty of Job?" "I think it is wrong for the strong to test the weak, though it is natural for the weak to test the strong."
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Do you know why sailors wear gold in their ears?" Uncle asked me. "It was the law, long ago, that a sailor had to have on his person enough gold to bury him should he wash ashore. So the seaside folk wouldn't be out of pocket at the funeral expense."
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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And every morning my heart will rise to meet the sea, which is what we know here on earth of infinity and change.
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Los buenos actos resuenan a nuestro paso, mucho tiempo despues de que hayamos olvidado haberlos realizado.
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commonwealth
peace
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Sena Jeter Naslund |