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“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

— Max Ehrmann

Desiderata (1927)

From the beloved prose-poem Desiderata. Ehrmann's gentle reminder that your existence is not accidental or conditional. You belong in the universe as much as anything in nature belongs.

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