And he beholds the Moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

- Gustave Flaubert

Awareness

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

- Gustave Flaubert

Balance

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

- Gustave Flaubert

Hope

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

- Gustave Flaubert

Self-awareness

"A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies"

- Gustave Flaubert

Adversity

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"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

Reflection

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

Reflection

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

Reflection

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

Reflection

"Happy Tuesday! It is a good day to reflect on the week so far and spread happiness."

Reflection