... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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