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“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
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“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
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“But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.”
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“We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.”
― In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories, & Prayers
― In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories, & Prayers
“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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