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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
