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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
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and I wake to remember that my childhood aspirations are now only phantasms.


“The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood. It is the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though you are fading, disappearing into the background, until you are nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of your former self.”
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“Love is a universal Heaven, ignorance is an individual Hell.”
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“Childhood does not last forever,' said Juniper. 'Although I believe the childish soul can endure for an eternity.”
― Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods
― Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods

“I really think when historians look back on our time they will not divide us into red and blue and Republican Democrat like the things that were wrong with us were wrong with both sides in different ways, I do think they manifest in a more dangerous way on the right. But on the left there is a rot and it comes from academia and it filters down.”
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