Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The past is a sorry country.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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