"The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg."

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Emile Zola

#Legs Quotes #Crutches Quotes #Lourdes Quotes

“Stop judging your life only by the failures.”

Source : Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.178, LUNA
“My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.”
“Great God, grant that twice two be not four.”
“Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.”
“People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.”

Source : Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books
“Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.”
“When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan
“Do not go through life; grow through life.”

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