So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.- Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (via wordsnquotes)
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person’s essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?- Haruki Murakami (via purplebuddhaproject)
People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.- John Patrick, The Curious Savage(via thelovejournals)
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.- John Muir
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