The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.

—Julia Butterfly Hill

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About Julia Butterfly Hill

Portrait of Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Lorraine Hill (born February 18, 1974), best known as Julia Butterfly Hill, is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She lived in a 200-foot (61 m)-tall, approximately 1,000-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997, and December 18, 1999. Hill lived in a tent...

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Our thoughts limit what we're capable of doing. There are external forces arrayed against us, but there are also internal forces that sabotage us before we even get started. Our mind is good at setting us up for failure and getting us to think small. But I have found that we will do for love that which we don't think is possible. So the question to ask ourselves is "What do I love?

—Julia Butterfly Hill

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She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five. She says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.

—Jane Green in Another Piece of My Heart

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx

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You have to choose the life you want. You have to take action and realize that you create your own destiny by making choices and sticking to them.

—Robin Bielman in Wild About Her Wingman

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You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood—and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

—Jessamyn West

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