The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
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