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“Happiness seems like a pretty far off dream at this point, like something I might have woken up to a long time ago. Not something that exists in my reality anymore.”
― Robert J. Crane, Broken

“True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough.”
― Ronald Rolheiser, The Shattered Lantern: Rediscovering a Felt Presence of God

“All loves have much in common, and any one will offer a useful, if not painless, education in the limitations and possibilities of being human. If you give your committed love to a person, an idea, or a cause, even should that person, idea, or cause be taken from you, or proven false, you will be a better lover—of anyone, of anything—for the experience. Because I am as religious person, I see this in characteristically grandiose, religious terms: The point of being human is to get better (and better) at caritas, at agape, at love.”
― Kate Braestrup, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir

“There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet