"Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending."

-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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“Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press
“Love should be as natural as living and breathing.”
“You don't have the same experiences as all of your friends, hopefully. Instead, you meet people and something clicks.”
“I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.”
“Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.”
“It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.”
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“The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.”

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