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C.S. Lewis
“Son,'he said,' ye cannot in your present state understand eternity...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin. Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why...the Blessed will say "We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, "We were always in Hell." And both will speak truly.”
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

Thornton Wilder
“I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.”
Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth

David Whyte
“The marriage of work has everything to do with the romance of the everyday.”
David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

David Whyte
“Only those who put more energy into self-pity than into paying attention are truly marooned.”
David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

David Whyte
“Therefore, at any time of life, follow your own questions; don’t mistake other people’s questions for your own.”
David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

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