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- She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more… — Doris Lessing
- There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another… — George Eliot
- Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for… — William James
- The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross
- The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human… — Seth Low
- To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest… — Clifford Geertz
- Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,… — Ben Okri
- Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little… — Dallas Willard
- It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments… — Wendell Berry
- In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its… — Barbara Kingsolver
- Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. — Edmund Waller
- The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we… — Gordon B. Hinckley