"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of strugg...

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.
~ John Steinbeck ~












What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

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"Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahea...
"Smile and thank God, that you are alive today!
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"Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
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