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Not sure if I should move this lovely book to the 'Read' shelf, as it's a book that I will always be going back to. If one poem doesn't speak to me, I just randomly open up the book again. Breathtaking, vivid, quiet, nature. Poems for every season an
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“Life is about change. If you don't change, you'll never grow.”
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“It was an act of pure faith to pick up the receiver, dial a number, to be answered by a wall of silence and speak anyway. Fatih was the key to it all.”
― The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
― The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
“There is perhaps only one thing to say to this infant, who is all future, overlapping briefly with me, whose life, barring the improbable, is all but past.
That message is simple:
When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man's days with a sated joy, unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
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That message is simple:
When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man's days with a sated joy, unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
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“Bobby had a secret. You know what it was? It took nothing to make him happy. That was it. He held happiness in his hand easy as if he'd just, I don't know, plucked a blade of grass form the ground. And all he did his whole short life was offer that happiness to anybody who'd smile at him. That's all he wanted form me. From you. From anybody. A smile.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“It wasn't a miracle. You believed. And made it happen.”
― The Long Flight Home
― The Long Flight Home
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