"Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city... Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills..."  -- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

"I don't regret the things i've done, I regret the things i didn't do when i had the chance" ~@Laurabuckingham

 Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face. They are those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

--Anne Marrow Lindbergh

But you see, just because we've been...dealt a certain hand...it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted.

- Edward, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 

I would end the lives of many to protect yours. And I feel it would be a constant temptation to take your life myself..but I don't know if I could truly bring myself to do it..unless there was no other way to save you. And I would surely weep endlessly when you were gone.

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 Don't wait for a crisis to decide what is important in life.

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 "The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view, we love to walk the plains."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer

 
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