Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.

Elizabeth Goudge

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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

Barry Hannah
- Up
- Freedom
- Silence
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

Naftali Bennett
- World
- Freedom
- Perfect
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

Umberto Eco
- Freedom
- Lost
- Opinion
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Gary Zukav
- Time
- Future
- Pain
When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

Nazanin Boniadi
- World
- Love
- Freedom
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.

Karen DeCrow
- World
- Important
- Pain