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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Deason Inspirational Present Pure
The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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Block Flake Mute Nature Silence World
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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Catch Cup Empty Experience Grace Hollow Present Waterfall
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
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
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
ANNIE DILLARD

Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
ANNIE DILLARD

Build Inspirational Jump Time Wings
At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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Empty Listen Mountain Ready Wait Wood Yourself
You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Caution Courage One Liner Test
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Feeling Place Planet Travel
Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
ANNIE DILLARD

Use Writing Wrong
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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According Away Believe Book Light Swept
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Afternoon Spend Travel Vacation
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
ANNIE DILLARD

Hope Inspirational Positive Wake Up
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 Time Writing

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