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Live Your Best Life
P H O T O G R A P H B Y D I D I E R M A S S A R D
Are there seasons in heaven?In God’s anteroom are there windows
that look out on trees like these—each leaf a note for the brass
ensemble of autumn—the dry ones castanets
clicking: October, October. Can heaven itself be golden
enough to rival all this?—Linda Pastan, “Heaven”
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Be what you are. Givewhat is yours to give.
Have style. Dare.—Stanley Kunitz , from “Journal for My Daughter”
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to allow my living to open me,
I will not die an unlived life.I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fi re. I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid,
more accessible, to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my signifi cance, to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.—Dawna Markova
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In fact, the ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms,
not to mention the further and more fulfi lling gift of getting started all over again—never resting upon the oars of
success or in the doldrums of disappointment.… Getting started, keeping going, getting started again—in art and in life,
it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.… —Seamus Heaney P H O T O G R A P H B Y J O H N B E C K E R
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—which you had thought unique
and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if
a hand has come out and taken yours.” —Alan Bennett
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“We are told
that people stay in
love because of
chemistry, or because they
remain intrigued with each
other, because of many
kindnesses, because of luck.
But part of it has got to
be forgiveness and
gratefulness.”
—Ellen Goodman
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“The great secret...
is not having bad manners or good manners...
but having the same manner for all human souls:
in short, behaving
as if you were in
Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages,
and one soul is as good as another.”
—George Bernard Shaw
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“If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about
her, she will slowly die.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
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“We don’t know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
Something in us knows that we are not just here to toil at our work. There is a mysterious pull to remember.”
—Jack Kornfi eld, from After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
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Love means to learn to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills.... —Czeslaw Milosz , from “Love”
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