things to remember when the world is too much
... See moreSome periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larg

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Hilary Hahn - V. Williams "The Lark Ascending"
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Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things.