"When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace."

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Source : Patricia Briggs (1998). “When Demons Walk”, p.236, Penguin

Patricia Briggs

#Expectations Quotes #Grace Quotes #Important Quotes

“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”
“And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.”

Source : 'Journeys and Places' (1937) 'Hölderlin's Journey'
“My children are my whole life.”
“True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.”
“In terms of poetry, I worry about being far from the voice of my childhood, the rhythms of Ulster speech, and the liveliness of its dialect. I know there is a vitality to New York talk, but living among people of different cultures does mean you're forced to homogenize and lose the interesting words and phrases in order to be understood.”
“It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.”
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
“I never lost money by turning a profit.”

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