"Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close."

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Marguerite Yourcenar

#Past Quotes #Far Away Quotes

“Thereâ€™s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us. At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good. He never stops. It gives Him too much pleasure. God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end. He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles. At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.”
“I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.44, University of Georgia Press
“One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2007.
“Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.”
“Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.”
“It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the â€œkingdomâ€, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.”
“Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.”
“Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us ... Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.”

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