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“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.” – C.S. Lewis

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Waste it all

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“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.” – Nora Ephron

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Embrace the mess

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“Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

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Clenched fists

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

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The habit of excellence

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“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.” – Brennan Manning

Great trials, great deeds

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“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde

A love less ordinary

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“Forget your personal tragedy…you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.” — Ernest Hemingway

Forget your personal tragedy

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“Joy—that sharp, wonderful stab of longing—has a lithe, muscular lightness to it. It’s deft. It produces longing that weighs heavy on the heart, but it does so with precision and coordination…It dashes in with the agility of a hummingbird claiming its nectar from the flower, and then zips away. It pricks, then vanishes, leaving a wake of mystery and longing behind it.” – C.S. Lewis

A wake of mystery and longing

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“In passing we should note this curious mark of our age: The only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.” — Francis A. Schaeffer

The absolute insistence

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“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.” – Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

The doing and undoing

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