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“I confess I do not believe in time … And the highest enjoyment of timelessness – in a landscape selected at random – is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love.”

“Life is it’s own answer… Live as well as possible. Expect no more. Destroy nothing. Humble nothing. Look for fault in nothing. Leave unsullied and untouched all that is beautiful.‘

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.‘

In Memory: “good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that… The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.“

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“So the more privileged and comfortable someone’s life is, the harder it is for them to appreciate the needs and issues of those worse off. But as long as we don’t do something stupid like put the most pampered people in charge of running countries, we should be OK.”

“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.”

“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”

Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming “the devil made me do it”, they argue “You made me do it”

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