"Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep."

-- Marilynne Robinson

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“No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.”
“The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc
“The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.112
“I can't say, 'I eat whatever I want when I want,' but I have come up with some great treats for myself that are healthy and satisfying.”
“It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.”
“As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.”
“As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.”
“Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.”

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