Happy Place
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“Is there one that looks like us?” he asks. They all do, I think. You are in all of my happiest places. You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.
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“Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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