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Keep your expectations low,
and you will never be disappointed.

―Roswell Parks

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Keep some room in your heart
for the unimaginable.

―Mary Oliver

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Keep your friends close
and your enemies closer.

―Mario Puzo

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Keep a green bough in your heart
and the singing bird will come.

―Chinese proverb

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This music's the only thing
keepin' the peace
when I'm falling to pieces

―Lil Peep

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What is it the wind has lost
that she keeps looking for
under each leaf?

―Braided Creek

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Rituals keep us from forgetting
what must not be forgotten.

—Tony Campolo

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Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.

—Harvey MacKay

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The future you
is depending on the current you
to keep the promises
you made to yourself
yesterday.

―Jordan Ferrone

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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

—Joseph Heller

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We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.

—Robin Wall Kimmerer

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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

—Thomas Aquinas

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