Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

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"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

- Wallace Stegner

Growth

"A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter."

- Wallace Stegner

Growth

"[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer."

- Wallace Stegner

New Beginnings

"Another fall, another turned page."

- Wallace Stegner

New Beginnings

"Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer."

- Wallace Stegner

New Beginnings

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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