"But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldnâ€™t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasnâ€™t the reality of my life interesting enough? This is surely the time to let go of grievances, I told myself sternly. What good does it do to dwell on them? Brooding on a nest of grudges will only hatch more grief."

-- Liza Dalby

#Letting Go Quotes #Grief Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.”
“A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.”
“This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.”
“When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.”
“by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.”
“Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.”
“The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.”
“If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.”

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