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"Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?"
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"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."

"Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events."

"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."

"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."

"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."

"Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure."

"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."
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"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."


"I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write."


"MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising. How two hands touch and the bonds will never be broken. How people come, from delight or the scars of damage, to the comfort of a poem. Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads."


"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."


"Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth."


"LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT(PERCY THREE)He puts his cheek against mineand makes small, expressive sounds.And when I'm awake, or awake enoughhe turns upside down, his four pawsin the airand his eyes dark and fervent.Tell me you love me, he says.Tell me again.Could there be a sweeter arrangement?Over and overhe gets to ask it.I get to tell."
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