“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”
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“Change occurs at the edges, without permission.”
― Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
― Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
“Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.”
― Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
― Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
“You do not have to overdo to be loved.
You do not have to perform to be loved.
You do not have to worry that your life will become meaningless or pointless if you soften.”
― Walking with Persephone
You do not have to perform to be loved.
You do not have to worry that your life will become meaningless or pointless if you soften.”
― Walking with Persephone
“But there too fine cooking would become inescapably French. Its greatest proselytiser was Julia Childs, who had an infectious passion for sauce. Her book of 1961, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her TV show, The French Chef, encouraged the ‘servantless American cook’ to abandon all concern for ‘budgets, waistlines, time schedules’ and ‘children’s meals’ in order to throw him- or herself into ‘producing something wonderful to eat’. Elizabeth Bennet would have been horrified.”
― If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
― If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
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