Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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They make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat.
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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
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Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
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But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
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If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.
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Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
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From wine what sudden friendship springs!
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
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There is no need for you to develop an armed insurrection. Christ himself has already begun an insurrection with his mouth.
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If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.
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Sun-girt City, thou hast been Ocean's child, and then his queen; Now is come a darker day, And thou soon must be his prey.
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I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.
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All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.
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Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
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He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.
