“You can’t indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment,” she writes in an essay in Mystery and Manners.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”
― All The Pretty Horses
― All The Pretty Horses
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
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“What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.”
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“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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