A quote you try to live by
I freakin' love quotes.
When I was younger, I had a composition book full of quotes, and every time I found a good one I'd throw it in there. At some point I copied the original book into a new composition book and added from there, and the second book I still have. The quote book had words from Tuck Everlasting alongside quotes from Hemingway and Truman(pulled from my math teacher's quote-a-day calendar; he'd always let me have the old ones. I think that was the only math class I ever enjoyed).
As much as I love quotes, I can't say I actually live by any of them. My favorite has always been Henry David Thoreau's "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." That nugget of wisdom has lodged itself pretty firmly in my brain, too. I try to remember that two people looking at the same thing can be seeing very different things. It helps give perspective, I think.
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