Christina Stead Quotes
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You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.
Gautama Buddha
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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
Arnold Friberg
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An organization is great if you have a clear vision to be able to make it powerful. If you don't, an organization can kind of sap energy that could go elsewhere.
Ben Wikler
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I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.
Alissa Nutting
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Firelight and Polly had lent a momentary charm to the parlor but now, looking up at the portrait, he was aware of having passed under the shadow of a dark hand. Emma, he realized, lived under it always. Her parlor was her past, and Isaac's, and if Issac in tearing himself out of its grip had torn himself too he was better off with his asthma and his nerves and his eccentricity than Emma. Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.
Elizabeth Goudge
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The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
Clarence Day
