It is a burden..( M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law."- Susan Cooper ("Merriman" The Dark is Rising). Susan Cooper
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  2. I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. - Thomas Keller
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  4. What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. - Deepak Chopra
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  1. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.
  2. It is a burden..( M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with...
  3. The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.
  4. And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.
  5. All life is theatre, ' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....
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