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“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
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the ringing grooves of change.”
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“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
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“I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent.”
― Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship
― Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel of Mary, Faith, and Friendship
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
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