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“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down a large portion of her life long ago. Piece by piece she had given it away as she wrestled with existence, as her self was absorbed as nourishment into his life and the life of the children and the community. And laid down most piercingly, as she abandoned, one by one, the shapes of the dreams she had planned. Only to take them up again in other forms.”
― Strangers and Sojourners
― Strangers and Sojourners
“Make it a practice to judge
persons and things in the most favorable light
at all times and under all circumstances.”
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persons and things in the most favorable light
at all times and under all circumstances.”
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“if it is prayer at all, it must be accompanied by meditation.”
― Interior Castle
― Interior Castle
“The great gift of eyesight
Is to spy stars at night–
In dozens–or thousands–
While our hearts make amends
For wrongs we wrought today
When, blind, we looked away
From light and stumbled through
Mazes, crooked, narrow.”
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Is to spy stars at night–
In dozens–or thousands–
While our hearts make amends
For wrongs we wrought today
When, blind, we looked away
From light and stumbled through
Mazes, crooked, narrow.”
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