If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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I enjoyed my life when I had nothing. and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. ~Joey Ramone
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. ~Seneca
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Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arabic Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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All things grow with time, except grief. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. ~August Tholuck
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb
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