You can’t test courage cautiously.
ANNIE DILLARDI 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.
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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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