Brenda Shaughnessy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.
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Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.
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I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
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Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
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What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?
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Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.
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You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.
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I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.
-- Brenda Shaughnessy
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.
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The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
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One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
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