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- In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the…
- The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear…
- Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything…
- Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
- "Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna…
- God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is…
- Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change…
- You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened.…
- Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
- I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She…
- all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why…
- Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and…
- The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother?…
- the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of…
- All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
- So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to…
- Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
- I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask…
- The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces,…
- You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to…
- Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come…
- This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.
- You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part…
- She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.
- Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle