"It's possible to have too much in life.……" — Joan D. Chittister
"It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of touch with life; too much free time and dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so tha we can taste the marrow of life, rather than its superfluities."
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Joan D. Chittister
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