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Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers — because we will never have those — but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.
Rosalie Maggio (1944-2021) American writer
The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, Introduction (1996)
Added on 16-Feb-18 | Last updated 16-Feb-18
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Topics: ambiguity, answers, carpe diem, edge, fear, life, living, uncertainty
More quotes by Maggio, Rosalie Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Self-Reliance,”
Essays: First Series (1841)
Added on 28-Aug-07 | Last updated 27-Mar-23
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Topics: edge, goodness, hardness, strength, virtue
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