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- The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people…
- When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in themselves, some unknown…
- In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and…
- We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.
- If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm.
- Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a…
- Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When you face your…
- We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected…
- A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this…
- When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.
- The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing…
- Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood,…
- ...to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life.
- Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In…
- the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world…
- No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the…
- Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did…
- Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.
- May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.
- The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold perfect form.…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong