What is your favorite quote? What words in it make it your favorite quote?
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“There is no greater joy in life than to believe you can’t do something only to discover you can.”
Joy, can’t, discover, can
https://www.stevegansenediting.com/post/words-matter-week-2023
My favorite quote hearkens to my family’s ancestry on the Emerald Isle. And with March being Irish American Heritage Month, it has special significance:
“A family of Irish birth will argue and fight, but let a shout come from without, and see them all unite.”
—Irish Proverb
The words that make it my favorite quote are “family of Irish birth,” a poetic way of distilling the connectedness of bloodline to land and place, and the rhyming words “fight” and “unite,” which offer a perfect summation of the Irish experience.
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