Melanie Gideon Quotes

#1. Why do you always think the sky is falling? Maybe the sky is calling, not falling.

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#2. For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.

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#3. A misstep many make: they mistake darkness for meaning. They think light is easy. They think light will find a way through the crack in the door by itself. But it doesn't - you have to open the door & let it in.

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#4. We might miss the days of being unreachable.

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#5. And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present becomes the past I seem to have no problem attending to it obsessively. : )

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#6. Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

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#7. When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

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