To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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