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All you need to know

Photo by Harshal S. Hirve on Unsplash The cucumber is bitter? Throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know. (Marcus Aurelius)

A faint odour of resurrection

Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash January, as always, brought its one day when people said that it felt like spring. The sky was a patched and ragged blue, and the marsh, with its thousand weeds and grasses, breathed a faint odour of resurrection. Penelope Fitzgerald (in The Bookshop )

What is defeat?

Photo by Artur Shamsutdinov on Unsplash What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. Wendell Phillips

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out (Theodore Roosevelt)

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The things that hurt, instruct (Benjamin Franklin)

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Perception

Photo by Etienne Boulanger on Unsplash There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. Ryan Holiday