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  • #1
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    tags: god, joy

  • #2
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #3
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”
    Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: god

  • #4
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #5
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth

  • #6
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #7
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
    Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    tags: love

  • #8
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

  • #9
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “He who must travel happily must travel light.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • #10
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.”
    Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

  • #11
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #12
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #13
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #14
    Cecilia Llompart
    “If Springtime crawls out of the

    wild mouths of flowers, then
    surely, Winter crawls out of mine.”
    Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

  • #15
    Elizabeth Camden
    “It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it's really a time of renewal and reflection.”
    Elizabeth Camden, Until the Dawn

  • #16
    Emily Fridlund
    “Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.”
    Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves

  • #17
    Willa Cather
    “Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”
    Willa Cather, My Ántonia

  • #18
    “Sometimes doing nothing makes way for everything.”
    Hiral Nagda



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