"As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories are bathed in a kind of golden light that seemed to embrace me as surely as my mother's arms. The divine presence was strongest outdoors, and most palpable when I was alone."

-- Barbara Brown Taylor

#Mother Quotes #Memories Quotes #Light Quotes

“I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.”
“It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'”
“Embrace the glorious mess that you are”
“Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than nine pages into a script and realizing to my horror that I'm only about a quarter of the way through the story I wanted to tell, and the next thing you know, I'm making fresh coffee and tearing up the floorboards to rewrite.”
“Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!”
“When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2012). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.”
“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”

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