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/ page 957 of 1205 /The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
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Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.
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Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
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Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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