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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 07:33:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Frank Herbert]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -- Frank Herbert]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/303784-there-is-a-tide-in-the-affairs-of-men-which</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:27:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by William Shakespeare ]]>
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	    <![CDATA["There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures." -- William Shakespeare ]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/120721-feelings-like-disappointment-embarrassment-irritation-resentment-anger-jealousy-and-fear</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 06:53:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Pema Chödrön]]>
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	    <![CDATA["…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are." -- Pema Chödrön]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/85667-we-think-that-the-point-is-to-pass-the-test</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 06:53:29 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Pema Chödrön]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/85667-we-think-that-the-point-is-to-pass-the-test]]>
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	    <![CDATA["We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved.  They come together and they fall apart.  Then they come together again and fall apart again.  It's just like that.  The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen:  room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy." -- Pema Chödrön]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/172766-to-be-fully-alive-fully-human-and-completely-awake-is</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 06:53:56 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Pema Chödrön]]>
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	    <![CDATA["To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. " -- Pema Chödrön]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/745-perhaps-all-the-dragons-in-our-lives-are-princesses-who</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:26:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." -- Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717-be-patient-toward-all-that-is-unsolved-in-your-heart</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:26:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." -- Rainer Maria Rilke]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1773-if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking-i-shall</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:28:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Emily Dickinson]]>
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	    <![CDATA["If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." -- Emily Dickinson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11746-i-m-nobody-who-are-you-are-you-nobody-too-then</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:29:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Emily Dickinson]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I'm nobody! Who are you?  
Are you nobody, too?  
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!  
They ’d banish us, you know.  
   
How dreary to be somebody!         
How public, like a frog  
To tell your name the livelong day  
To an admiring bog!" -- Emily Dickinson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14507-there-is-no-frigate-like-a-book-to-take-us</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:30:01 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Emily Dickinson]]>
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	    <![CDATA["There is no Frigate like a Book 
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page 
Of prancing Poetry –  
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –  
How frugal is the Chariot 
That bears a Human soul." -- Emily Dickinson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2690-i-went-to-the-woods-because-i-wished-to-live</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:31:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Henry David Thoreau]]>
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	    <![CDATA["I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." -- Henry David Thoreau]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2443-how-vain-it-is-to-sit-down-to-write-when</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:31:29 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Henry David Thoreau]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2443-how-vain-it-is-to-sit-down-to-write-when]]>
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	    <![CDATA["How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." -- Henry David Thoreau]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5194-the-question-is-not-what-you-look-at-but-what</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:31:33 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Henry David Thoreau]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5194-the-question-is-not-what-you-look-at-but-what]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The question is not what you look at, but what you see." -- Henry David Thoreau]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/50588-you-must-live-in-the-present-launch-yourself-on-every</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:31:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Henry David Thoreau]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/50588-you-must-live-in-the-present-launch-yourself-on-every]]>
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	    <![CDATA["You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this." -- Henry David Thoreau]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3234-if-you-have-built-castles-in-the-air-your-work</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:32:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Henry David Thoreau]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3234-if-you-have-built-castles-in-the-air-your-work]]>
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	    <![CDATA["If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." -- Henry David Thoreau]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5892-our-life-is-frittered-away-by-detail-simplify-simplify</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:32:29 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Henry David Thoreau]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5892-our-life-is-frittered-away-by-detail-simplify-simplify]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." -- Henry David Thoreau]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/50257-however-mean-your-life-is-meet-it-and-live-it</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:32:57 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Henry David Thoreau]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/50257-however-mean-your-life-is-meet-it-and-live-it]]>
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	    <![CDATA["However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace." -- Henry David Thoreau]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/419183-at-lunchtime-i-bought-a-huge-orange-the-size-of</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 06:30:56 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Wendy Cope]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/419183-at-lunchtime-i-bought-a-huge-orange-the-size-of]]>
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	    <![CDATA["At lunchtime I bought a huge orange
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park
This is peace and contentment. It's new.

The rest of the day was quite easy.
I did all my jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I'm glad I exist." -- Wendy Cope]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/22330-to-live-in-this-world-you-must-be-able-to</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 08:35:10 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Mary Oliver]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/22330-to-live-in-this-world-you-must-be-able-to]]>
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	    <![CDATA["to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go" -- Mary Oliver]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/356684-the-journey-one-day-you-finally-knew-what-you-had</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 08:35:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Mary Oliver]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/356684-the-journey-one-day-you-finally-knew-what-you-had]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
&quot;Mend my life!&quot;
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save." -- Mary Oliver]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/113317-when-it-s-over-i-want-to-say-all-my-life</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 08:36:07 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Mary Oliver]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/113317-when-it-s-over-i-want-to-say-all-my-life]]>
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	    <![CDATA["When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. 

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument. 

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world." -- Mary Oliver]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10617974-napoli-la-pi-misteriosa-citt-d-europa-la-sola</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:28:44 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[Gail add a quote by Curzio Malaparte]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10617974-napoli-la-pi-misteriosa-citt-d-europa-la-sola]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Napoli è la più misteriosa città d'Europa, è la sola città del mondo antico che non sia perita come Ilio, come Ninive, come Babilonia. È la sola città del mondo che non è affondata nell'immane naufragio della civiltà antica. Napoli è una Pompei che non è stata mai sepolta. Non è una città: è un mondo." -- Curzio Malaparte]]>
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