What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur 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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There are no inanimate objects.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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