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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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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
— Irving Layton
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Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
— Clinton D. McKinnon
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Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
— Will Durant
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If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.
— Sergio Aragones
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We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent…
— Harold Nicolson
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My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs,…
— Rumi
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My life is full of broken halos.
— Keith Richards
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And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek,…
— Lauren Oliver
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Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and…
— Arthur W. Pink
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What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
— Christopher Fry
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