"Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die.……" — Frederick Buechner
"Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it."
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Frederick Buechner
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169 Quotes by Frederick Buechner
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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