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How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us. Tracy Kidder
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Wherever in this city, screens flickerwith pornography, with science-fiction vampires, victimized hirelings bending to the lash, we also have to walk . . . if simply as we walkthrough the rainsoaked garbage, the tabloid crueltiesof our own neighborhoods. We need to grasp our lives inseperablefrom those rancid dreams, that blurt of metal, those disgraces, and the red begonia perilously flashingfrom a tenement sill six stories high, or the long-legged young girls playing ballin the junior... Adrienne Rich
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work. Haruki Murakami
Edith Wharton quote: "[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who..."
[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally. Edith Wharton
Ayn Rand quote: "A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry."
A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry. Ayn Rand
Lloyd Alexander quote: "Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse..."
Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered. Lloyd Alexander
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow... Cornel West
Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78 Martin Buber
Mary Oliver quote: "You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth..."
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the worlddoesn't need any more of that sound. Mary Oliver
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you..."
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."(Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.) Marcus Tullius Cicero
John Berger quote: "If every event which occurred could be given a name, there..."
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. John Berger
Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts. E. L. Konigsburg
It was getting dark by the time I went out, and nobody who knows the country will need to be told how black is the darkness of a November night under high laurel bushes and yew-trees. I walked into the heart of the shrubberies two or three times, not seeing a step before me, till I came out upon the broader carriage-road, where the trees opened a little, and there was a faint grey glimmer of sky visible, under which the great limes and elms stood darkling like ghosts; but it grew black again... Margaret Oliphant

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