“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Be patient. Your future will soon come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.”
― To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.”
― To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
“Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so.
You're entirely Bonkers.
But I will tell you a secret,
All the best people are.”
― Alice in Wonderland
You're entirely Bonkers.
But I will tell you a secret,
All the best people are.”
― Alice in Wonderland
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