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spark within

COMMENTARY: Surviving Grief and Tragedy – The Spark Within 760.4

by Michael Josephson on February 1, 2012

in Commentaries, The Nature of Character

QUOTE: Ralph Waldo Emerson urged us to find the spark within: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

by Michael Josephson on February 1, 2012

in Quotes, Observations

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