Florida ScottMaxwellLife does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.
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Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition. As we grow and mature, we begin to realize that life is not accommodating. If we're to mature we must break free of the boundaries that hold us captive and keep us wrong and set us free.
Source: The Measure Of My Days
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