The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Weather creates character.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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