As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERSIf you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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