"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked"

Nin, Anais on Joy
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on Attitude
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on Courage
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

Nouwen, Henri on Honesty
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"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."

Blake, William on Possibilities
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"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

James, P. D. on Effort
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on Action
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"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Dyke, Henry Van on Talent
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