She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

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"The last days of May are among the longest of the year."

- Alice Munro

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"Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream."

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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

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"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

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"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

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"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing."

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"As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life."

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