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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

Annie Dillard

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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Beam Cause Inspirational Light Myself Path Practice See Try Wave
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Air Book Breathe Live Reading
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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Die Friendship Hope Writing
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Comprehensive Earn Universe
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Build Inspirational Jump Time Wings
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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Bell Experience Inspirational Life Lift Moments Struck
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time – give it, give it all, give it now.
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Giving Lose Play Shoot Writing
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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Inspirational Live Spend Time
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Heart Prayer Serve Sing Work Hard World
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Afternoon Spend Travel Vacation
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Dedicate Giving Heart Life Live Worth
I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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Cool Eyes Flame Look See Spark Tinder Water
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
ANNIE DILLARD

Hope Inspirational Positive Wake Up
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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Absurd Business Compromise Fact Finding Hands Ideas Work

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