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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
~ Gloria Steinem
A blog for the book IMPERFECT: a poetry anthology for middle schoolers about mistakes
How can we make the most of useful mistakes and do our best to fix the ones that need fixing? Poetry can help us figure it out.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
~ Gloria Steinem
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Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.
~ Kahlil Gibran
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We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
~ Rumi
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
~ Desmond Tutu
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We can establish no real trust between nations until we acknowledge the power of love above all other power. We cannot cast out fear and therefore we cannot build up trust. Perfectly obvious and perfectly true...
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~Vicki Corona
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~ Virginia Woolf