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Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

I have this great friend (MONICA!, miao HB) who oft sends me daily inspirada - always cleverly in tune with things I am currently stressing on, thinking about or trying to ignore. Read Desiderata slowly - savor it. And then make your mac backdrop like I may or may not have just done.

Desiderata resonated with me this morning, because pulled between not knowing if I am going to be able to stay in Paris or change my path, it’s important to remember things are unfolding the way they are unfolding. Life hasn’t been what I have expected - so why should I flatter myself to think things will happen the way I envision them at this moment?

I don’t have everything I want in life right now - but dammit do I have plans!! And I have (Visa contingent) time.

And for my French fanclub member (singular), here it is in Francais!

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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

— Lance Armstrong

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I don’t go by the rulebook…I lead from the heart, not the head.

— Princess Diana

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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

— Paul Auster

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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them- wherever you go.

— Anthony Bourdain

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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the question now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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