"To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope."

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Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

Anne Carson

#Running Quotes #Want Quotes #Bittersweet Quotes

“Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... but a find; not a greeting... but a proclamation; not an outward fashion... but inward grace; not a day... but an eternity.”
“America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.”
“You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t? have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don’t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.”
“The only risk of failure is promotion.”
“When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.”
“Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.”
“Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.”
“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”

Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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