One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."
¶ (Attributed)
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John Burroughs (1837-1921) American naturalist
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
¶ (Attributed)
Nature does not care whether the hunter slays the beast or the beast the hunter. She will make good compost of both, and her ends are prospered whichever succeeds.
¶ Birds & Poets, ch. 2 (1877)
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