J. R. R. Tolkien on healing
J. R. R. Tolkien96 quotes“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien All’s well that ends better.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien Don’t go where I can’t follow!
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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