The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIllness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Weather creates character.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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