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Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. ↗

— Andrzej Sapkowski

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In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest. ↗

— Paul Miller

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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast. ↗

— Rumi

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...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #poetry-quotes #you #life

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#time #life

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there. ↗

— Richard Rohr

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The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#day #inspirational #life #live #motivational

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writing-craft #life

Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward"... Ecclesiastes 9:9 (NASB) ↗

— Anonymous

#biblical #ecclesiastes #enjoy-life #scripture #spiritual