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By mjVAL SILVER
San José, Other

Stupid, right? My own journal. Well, if you can call it by that name these days. Would it now be a digital journal? Or the word defines the concept no matter the way it’s done? Too...
mjVAL SILVER, San José, Other
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&ldquo;Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can&rsquo;t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.&rdquo;<br /> ― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper


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By brknets BRONZE
Tenafly, New Jersey
brknets BRONZE, Tenafly, New Jersey
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By nswamy13 BRONZE
Shelton, Connecticut
nswamy13 BRONZE, Shelton, Connecticut
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.<br /> <br /> Mahatma Gandhi

SaphiraBrightscales DIAMOND, Islamabad, Other
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I&#039;ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. <br /> - Maya Angelou <br /> When i was little/I used to point a chubby finger toward the dark sky/And ask my father/why some stars moved and others didn&rsquo;t/He would laugh and explain that some were airplanes/I still wish on them today ~ Laugh-It-Out<br /> The feathers of a crow are black/The ink of my pen is blacker/The pain of my heart is blackest~ Mckay<br /> If love produced a blossom/I&rsquo;d take it in my palm/What a blessing, the bright color!/How soothing, such a balm!/I&rsquo;d keep a petal for my own/The rest, drop from my hands/For such a flower would multiply/And populate the lands~ thesilentraven<br /> And I began to rival legends/Long entombed before my birth./But for all my much envied fame/The lust for more would not abate./The plaques and prizes with my name/Will, like all things, disintegrate. ~ TheEpic95 now known as Helena_Noel

onesmallinfinity GOLD, Dayton, Ohio
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&quot;What is the point of being alive if you don&#039;t at least try to do something remarkable?&quot; - John Green

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By Waistband GOLD
Hudson Falls, New York
Waistband GOLD, Hudson Falls, New York
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&quot;What&#039;s right is what&#039;s left if you do everything else wrong.&quot; Robin Williams

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RaeWrites BRONZE, Tucson, Arizona
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&quot;Life goes on.&quot;

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By Gabriela.1999 BRONZE
Orlando, Florida
Gabriela.1999 BRONZE, Orlando, Florida
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&quot;We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.&quot;<br /> -Aristotle

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