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“The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] He wants us to be good and kind.”
“If you find it difficult to get along with your boss, try to reason with him and talk through your differences. If that doesn't work, drive him to suicide and take over the company.”
“Fear will always be a tenant in your mind, but do not make fear the landlord of your mind.”
“If your dreams are so simple and easy to attain, why dont you walk straight to them and take them?”
“There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.”
“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
“It has always been my belief that, for everyone who is ready and willing, there is a place. it seems to wait for him or her, in some good human cause. Causes are man-made, to be sure, and in the lo...”
“I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human he...”
“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
“I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming right back to us.”
“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
“Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.”
“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even h...”
“The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of be...”
“In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no relevance to the physical world. At the same time, ...”
“Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to themit is a fact commonly known in ...”
“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered at a cave mouth round a fire, do not fear nig...”
“Who we are and where we want to go determines what we do now and what we accomplish over time.”
“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate...”
“What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that Iwasnt feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal waswhat I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love wit...”
