Ambiguity Quote by James Hollis

“Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.”

James Hollis

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In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

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“Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.” William Wordsworth,”

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