“In every childhood there is a door that closes. Only real love waits while we journey through our grief. That is the real trustworthiness between people. In all the epics, in all the stories that have lasted through many lifetimes, it is always the same truth: love must wait for wounds to heal. It is this waiting we must do for each other, not with a sense of mercy, or in judgment, but as if forgiveness were a rendezvous. How many are willing to wait for another in this way?”
― The Winter Vault
― The Winter Vault
“Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.”
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
“For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those -- few at any moment on the earth -- who do not "look before and after, and pine for what is not," but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now. Gibbie by no means belonged to the higher order, was as yet, indeed, not much better than a very blessed little animal.”
― Sir Gibbie
― Sir Gibbie
“when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
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