No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
ANNIE DILLARDYou can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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We live in all we seek.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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