Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
ANNIE DILLARDBooks swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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