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"The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged."

"There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at the very point of that very surrender, when I became convinced that I must bow to a world that would be forever frigid, God cupped the hands of my soul and poured in the warmth of Christmas."

"The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday."

"You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean."

"Too often my solution is to let something die because I can't keep it alive, when God's solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it."

"If you fall still stand your ground and strive for that new start."
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"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."

"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."

"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave."

"The free animalhas its dying always behind itand God in front of it, and its wayis the eternal way, as the spring flowing.Never, not for a moment, do we havepure space before us, where the flowersendlessly open."

"There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."

"Isn't it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?"

"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward."
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