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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.

Annie Dillard

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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Catch Cup Empty Experience Grace Hollow Present Waterfall
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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Bell Experience Inspirational Life Lift Moments Struck
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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Hard Time Life Live Shortage
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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Care Learning Reading Writing
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time…give it, give it all, give it now.
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Giving Lose Play Time Writing
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time – give it, give it all, give it now.
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Giving Lose Play Shoot Writing
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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Inspirational Live Spend Time
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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Grasp Necessary Obedient Passion Thinking
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Build Inspirational Jump Time Wings
Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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Block Flake Mute Nature Silence World
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Feeling Place Planet Travel
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Heart Prayer Serve Sing Work Hard World
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Alone Inquire Love People Pretty Subject
There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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Event Gossip Hard Heart Learning Love Time

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