“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”...
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“Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.” – Siri Hustvedt – With flu season going strong and concerns about the coronavirus dominating headlines,...
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“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.” – Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet – “Follow your passion” has been standard advice for a while. Yet that conventional...
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