Robert Alden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.
I'm sad, but I'm laughing.
You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.

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