"Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that."

-- Susan B. Anthony

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“Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.”
“I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.”
“Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.”
“I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.”

Source : Edward Hirsch (2009). “Special Orders: Poems”, p.48, Knopf
“By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.”
“Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: â€œNo!”
“Fear God and work hard.”
“For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.”

Source : "The Daily Balancing Act" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2007.

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