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41 " At your smallest components, you are indistinguishable from a forest fire. "
― Joseph Fink , The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe (Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, #2)
42 " Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is so small. And yet it is. "
43 " May we all be human: beautiful, stupid, temporal, endless.And as the sun sets, I place my hand upon my heart, feel that it is still beating, and remind myself: "Past performance is not a predictor of future results. "
44 " We wake up. We move on. No state is our state forever. All is fleeting. "
45 " We all chose to stand down and hope change would be won for us, and not by us. By someone else, we believed. A hero, we believed.But belief is only step one. Action is step two. Fighting for what you believe is step two. Solidarity is step two. Unity is step two. "
46 " Act natural. Act like all of nature. Act like the entire cycle of life and death and change and rebirth. "
47 " I am always going somewhere. Someday I won’t have to go. I will just be in the place that I am. "
48 " You won’t sleep when you’re dead, either. "
49 " I don’t have to keep trying. Remember that, I say to myself, as I keep trying. "
50 " When life seems dangerous and unmanageable, just remember that it is, and that you can’t survive forever. "
51 " But belief is only step one. Action is step two. Fighting for what you believe is step two. Solidarity is step two. Unity is step two. "
52 " Lady, I've trained for months. I've taken down your helicopters with only a slingshot. I've looked a librarian right in the area where most creatures would have eyes. You. Do. Not. Scare me. "
53 " But life solves all our problems against our will. "
54 " Your body is a temple. A temple of blood rituals and pagan tributes, a lost temple, a temple that needs more calcium. You should maybe try vitamin supplements. "
55 " And yes, you will die, but probably not until everyone you know is already dead too. Your parents, your friends, your pets, each death leaving a small but irreparable scar on your not yet still, still-beating heart. The living tell the dying not to leave and the dying do not listen. The dying tell us not to be sad for them and we do not listen. The dialogue between the living and the dead is full of misunderstanding and "
56 " We all chose to stand down and hope change would be won for us, and not by us. "
57 " We must continue to fight and resist. We must be the heroes we look for in others. We must no longer speak in code, but in action. "
58 " I sing the body electric. I gasp the body organic. I miss the body remembered. "
59 " the only thing more terrifying than seeing the devil is no longer being able to see the devil. "
60 " People die all the time for all different kinds of reasons. I wouldn’t worry if I were you. "