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“The right to have rights, or the right of every individual to belong to humanity, should be guaranteed by humanity itself.” ~Hannah Arendt

*Photo credit: Elizabeth Flaherty

“Stories are real. And stories can change. If your story isn’t working for you, you can find a better one to take its place.” ~ Seth Godin

“Grief is not a problem to be solved; it’s an experience to be carried.” ~Megan Devine

“There are days we live/as if death were nowhere/in the background; from joy/to joy to joy, from wing to wing,/from blossom to blossom to/impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.” ~Li-Young Lee

“You remember too much,/my mother said to me recently./Why hold onto all that? And I said,/Where can I put it down? ~Anne Carson

“I will not waste my one life pleasing ghosts.” ~Joseph Fasano

“If we’re not supposed to dance,/Why all this music?” ~Greg Orr

“Maybe it was the willingness to play that hinted at a tender, eternally newborn part in all humans. Maybe it was the willingness to play that kept one from despair.” ~ Gabrielle Zevin

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.” ~Louise Erdrich

“Salvation lies with/others,/though solitude may/taste like/opium. Other people/aren’t hell/if you glimpse them at/dawn, when/their brows are clean,/rinsed by dreams.” ~Adam Zagajewski