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That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
— Emily Dickinson
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
I have been a stranger in a strange land.
— Moses
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
— Rumi
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their…
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
— Dan Zadra
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
— John De Paola
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
I have come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the cli…
— Haim Ginott
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The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
— Isak Dinesen
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Stillness is the altar of spirit.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Solitude is the place of purification.
— Martin Buber
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is gi…
— Kahlil Gibran
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
— Anaïs Nin
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All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
— Blaise Pascal
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
— Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a…
— Marilynne Robinson
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Things are not as they once were, but I am the same person I was.
— Marilynne Robinson
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
— Mary Oliver
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautif…
— Mary Oliver
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Wherever you are is called Here, and you must treat it as a powerful stranger.
— David Wagoner
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
— Annie Dillard
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
At its heart every aesthetic question, like every ethical question, is a question of paying attention.
— Annie Dillard
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
— Annie Dillard
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening.
— Parker Palmer
On the Working Life
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born.
— Oprah Winfrey
On the Working Life
My grandmother always said that work is its own reward.
— Octavia Butler
On the Working Life
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who…
— Louis Nizer
On the Working Life
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you fe…
— Mark Twain
On the Working Life