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"Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love."

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."

"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."

"A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!"

"Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!"

"And without forgiveness, there is never any peace."

"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."

"Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion."

"Peace is the nature of the mind. And bliss is the nature of the Soul!"
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"Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity."


"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."


"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."


"As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action."


"I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore."
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