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“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
“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
“Home is ever so far away in the palm of your hand, and how to get there it is of no use to tell you. But you will get there; you must get there; you have to get there. Everybody who is not at home, has to go home. You thought you were at home where I found you: if that had been your home, you could not have left it. Nobody can leave home.”
― The Complete Works of George MacDonald
― The Complete Works of George MacDonald
“The pain you go through in life doesn’t really touch you . . . not the real you. . . . You are so much lighter than you think.”
― First Phone Call from Heaven
― First Phone Call from Heaven
“There’s a reason for this. Curiosity is unruly. It doesn’t like rules, or at least, it assumes that all rules are provisional, subject to the laceration of a smart question nobody has yet thought to ask. It disdains the approved pathways, preferring diversions, unplanned excursions, impulsive left turns. In short, curiosity is deviant. Pursuing it is liable to bring you into conflict with authority at some point, as everyone from Galileo to Charles Darwin to Steve Jobs could have attested.”
― Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It
― Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It
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