Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
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I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
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I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.
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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
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It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.
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Silence is a text easy to misread.
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Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him.
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Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
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And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight
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...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.
