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Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
Become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compassion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.
Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.
Discover the reason why
So tiny human giant
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
-Alice Walker
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2 comments:
Did you just get a book of her's or something...?
Or you just love it so much...?
Or here's your own spaceship?
Yes and no.
No because I didn't at the time you asked that, I now do.
More it just came to mind.
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