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Snakes

“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”- Buddha

Stars

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”- Dostoevsky

Eyes

“Shut your eyes and see.”- James Joyce

Heart

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”- Zelda Fitzgerald

Cows

“I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.”- Rick Riordan

Baseball

“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” - Leo Durocher

Connection

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”- James Baldwin

Sun

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”- Herman Hesse

Earth

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”- Kurt Vonnegut

Winter

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”- Victor Hugo

Bath

“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”- Lemony Snicket

Medicine

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”- Voltaire