Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fecastleberry)


I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables  (via whatsnottolove)

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And every year there is a brief, startling moment
When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and
Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless
Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air:
It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies;
It is the changing light of fall falling on us.
Edward Hirsch, from “Fall


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There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
C.S. Lewis 



I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Aristotle 


charming. 

charming. 

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