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last updated: November 28, 2023

When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.
-- Marguerite de Navarre

Source : "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XL, 1558.

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Out of many shared years. One life.
-- Richard Clarke Cabot

Source : Richard Clarke Cabot (1915). “Prescriptions, to be Taken Immediately, to be Taken for Life: A Collection of Extracts from Dr. Richard C. Cabot's "What Men Live By," Selected by Edith Motter Lamb”

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“I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!”
“Happiness is in your ability to love others.”
“I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.”
“High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.”
“Honor does not have to be defended.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.142, Macmillan
“... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.”
“In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight”
“Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.36, Green Dragon Books
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.”
“One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.”