We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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E. M. Forster Quote
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”
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