"Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything."

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Source : Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.495, Macmillan

Louise Penny

“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”
“Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, 'What a pretty flower,' but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still, not present, they don't truly see the flower, don't feel it's essence, it's holiness-just as they don't know themselves, don't feel their own essence, their own holiness.”
“I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.”
“As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.”
“[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.”
“God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.”
“I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.”
“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”

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