You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy. - Annie Dillard

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When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.

Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Arms, Ran, Tests, Waved

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We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

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Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding. . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.

Dwindle, Fire, Like, Noticed, Rip, Strong

What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.

Calling, Doe, Knock, Mean, Set, World

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Afternoon, Inspirational, Inspiring, Spend, Take, Time

Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.

Beautifully, Book, Books, Funniest, Written

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