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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a…
— Lord Byron
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I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
— Bernard Moitessier
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer…
— George Saintsbury
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…
— Howard Zinn
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I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my…
— Jean Craighead George
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will…
— Aaron Carter
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my…
— Andrew Solomon
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When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.
— Anne Frank
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If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when…
— Rich Little
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.…
— Denis Johnson
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
— Samuel Johnson
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A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little…
— Henri Nouwen
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