"Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next."

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Source : Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.60, Zondervan

Frederick Buechner

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“Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
“The prayer closet is the arena which produces the overcomer.”
“I'm everything I am because you loved me.”

Source : Song: Because You Loved Me, Album: Falling Into You, 1996
“I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.”
“Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.”
“Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.”
“I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.”

Source : "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.
“Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.”

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