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Words Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams
- I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming…
- I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the…
- I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be…
- Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.
- To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
- I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because…
- The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and…
- These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once…
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- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila