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"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."
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"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."
"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. .."
"The quieter the mind the louder the soul."
"The saddest day in the woods is when birds run out of happy songs to sing."
"Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it."
"The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul."
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"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."
"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
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