​“And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

— Rabindranath Tagore
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“May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke
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“When our need to be true to ourselves grows stronger than our fear of not being accepted, we gain the greatest acceptance of all: our own.”

— Quiet Lotus
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“I find ecstasy in living—the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

— Emily Dickinson
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​“Like the rice bowl, its cracks mended with gold, our scars are no cause for shame and need never be hidden.”

— Quiet Lotus
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