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“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
Janayah’s 2025 Year in Books
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