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"The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft."
-- Gustave Flaubert

"Everyone should observe the way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."
-- Hasidic saying

"We are all cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
-- Ray Bradbury

"Sometimes grace operates like water wings when you feel like you are sinking."
-Anne Lamott

"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
-- David Sedaris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-- that perches in the soul . . .
Emily Dickinson

Grace fills the empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
--Simone Weil

Perfection is shallow, unreal and fatally uninteresting.
--Anne Lamott

The way to achieve a difficult thing is to set it in motion.
--Kate O'Brien

It isn't just for the moment that you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
--Rule of St. Benedict.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
-- Kenneth Kaunda

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
-- Mark Twain

I have accepted fear as a part of my life-- specifically the fear of change . . . I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back . . .
--Erica Jong

It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.
--Shusha Guppy

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
--Ludwing van Beethoven


We do not write as we want, but as we can.
--W. Sommerset Maugham

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language is.
-- Mahatma Gandhi