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“do good, bestow kindness, strive for beauty, seek and find the river that leads to life everlasting, and draw from the fountain that never runs dry.”
― Theo of Golden
― Theo of Golden
“There is no virtue in advertising one’s sadness. But there is no wisdom in denying it either. And there is the beautiful possibility that great love can grow out of sadness if it is well-tended.”
― Theo of Golden
― Theo of Golden
“Sadness can make us bitter or wise. We get to choose.”
― Theo of Golden
― Theo of Golden
“Today I shall meet cruel man, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“How is it, Theo wondered, that a piece of paper - a letter, a photo, a ticket stub, a sketch, a painting - is suddenly transformed by placing it in four bits of wood beneath a pane of glass? What does it mean that we place permanent boundaries around transient moments? What does it say of humankind that we take such trouble to freeze specific memories, that we devote such energy to capturing and preserving the "minute particulars" of our lives?”
― Theo of Golden
― Theo of Golden
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