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#1

“We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: religion

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#2

“Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: desire, faith, religion, will

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#3

“People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: religion

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#4

“If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: dance, ritual, self-awareness

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#5

“There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: magic, religion, spirituality

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#6

“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible. ”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: comtemplation, magic

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#7

“The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: knowledge

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#8

“A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: prayer, ritual

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#9

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: color, love, rainbows

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#10

“Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.”
― James Patterson, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

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#11

“Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.”
― Randy Pausch

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#12

“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

tags: dreams, nourishment, soul

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#13

“Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

tags: learning, teaching

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#14

“Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.”
― Jim Fergus, The Wild Girl

tags: apaches, indians, war, west

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#15

“I knew then that when we had crested that final tortuos pass in the rocks and dropped down into this valley, we had crossed a threshold into another world, a world with its own sun and moon, and its own separate race of man.”
― Jim Fergus

tags: apaches, west

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#16

“...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.”
― Jim Fergus, The Wild Girl

tags: sacred, sierra-madre-mountains, travel, west

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#17

“What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was she married? Was she happy?... I look at these exquisite shoes, and I imagine the woman who owned them rising out of them or kissing someone...I look at a little hat like this, I lift up the veil, and I try to imagine the face beneath it... When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past.”
― Isabel Wolff, A Vintage Affair

tags: clothing, dresses, fashion, shoes, vintage

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#18

“I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.”
― Isabel Wolff, A Vintage Affair

tags: dress, fashion, shopping, style, vintage

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#19

“There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of color, and we're each one tiny thread in the weave.”
― Jane Johnson, The Tenth Gift

tags: embroidery

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#20

“Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition has it that they sing with the voices of lost lovers. If the stars are smiling on them, you will hear its mate call back in a moment.”
― Jane Johnson, The Tenth Gift

tags: birds, lovers, song

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#21

“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

tags: southern-women

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#22

“She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

tags: autumn, women

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#23

“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

tags: candy, morning, new-day, simile

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#24

“It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

tags: comfort

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#25

“Her dress was a shade of green only tree lizards should be sporting, and she wore more accessories than a home-shopping hostess.”
― Karen Neches, Earthly Pleasures

tags: catty-comments, insults

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#26

“The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles.”
― Karen Neches, Earthly Pleasures

tags: decor, earth-mothers, sixties

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#27

“You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.”
― Sandra Dallas

tags: storytellers, storytelling

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#28

“... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell. ”
― Sandra Dallas

tags: prayer

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#29

“Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer. ”
― Sandra Dallas

tags: depression, food, jam

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#30

“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”
― Sandra Dallas

tags: crafts, quilting, quilts, sewing, women

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