A bolt that raised her heart to blazing height And made the vertical the very thrust of hope, And found its path at last( Slow work of Grace).

May Sarton
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  1. We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

  2. The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.

  3. Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

  4. I am not ready to die, But I am learning to trust death As I have trusted life. I am moving Toward a new freedom

  5. Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

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