"Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?"

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Source : Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.304, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Clare Vanderpool

#Dream Quotes #Weight Quotes #Crushed Quotes

“Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive.”
“Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.”
“Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.”
“Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.”

Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”
“Photography has taken me from isolation.”
“Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.”
“Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary, and these can never be learned from books. We gain them from sitting high on a cliff side, gazing at the sea, lost in reverie and listening to the laughter of children.”

Source : Gary A. Kowalski (2003). “Science and the Search for God”, p.143, Lantern Books
“We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.”

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