Trees welcome you like monks in a monastery and bid you to lay down your heavy burden.
“Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness…it is strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.”
from her essay, On Being Ill”
― Novels by Virginia Woolf (Study Guide): The Years, to the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando: A Biography, Flush: A Biography, Night and Day
from her essay, On Being Ill”
― Novels by Virginia Woolf (Study Guide): The Years, to the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando: A Biography, Flush: A Biography, Night and Day
“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
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“When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits him- or herself to you wholly, it is a consummate experience. To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
― The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
― The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
― Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness
― Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness
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