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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when…
— William Shakespeare
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Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some…
— Henri Nouwen
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For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the…
— Archie Fire Lame Deer
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
— Abraham Verghese
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Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
— Edgar Degas
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If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one…
— Thomas Aquinas
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And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job…
— Emile Zola
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