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“It is as natural to the Icelandic heart to turn to poetry in times of stress as for another to search his Bible.”
― Laura Goodman Salverson, The viking heart

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“I can’t read books anymore,” I hear him say. “When I was a boy I read a lot, but then I stopped with the war.” He hesitates again. “It takes only one sentence to blow up a village. Two sentences to destroy the world.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

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“Believe this difficult truth. Showing respect in the face of disrespect, love in the face of hate, trust in the face of betrayal, and serenity in the face of turmoil, will teach your children more than all the moral lectures by all the preachers since the dawn of time.”
― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

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“We need to calculate the damage caused by the people who profit from war and make them pay for it,” I hear her continue. “That way they would understand that war is much more expensive than peace. In any case, the only language they understand is money,” she adds.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

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“If one has known poverty and suffering – not that genteel poverty of slender purse and shabby carpets – but the brutal poverty where the larder is oft-times empty, and where the frost lines the wall of one’s humble dwelling; then indeed it would seem that only love alone keeps the blood from congealing, then it is not so hard to understand the courage and endurance of the pioneer.”
― Laura Goodman Salverson

tags: courage, endurance, pioneer, poverty, suffering

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