13 Quotes & Sayings By Josephine Hart

Josephine Hart is a writer and journalist, who was born in England. She has written over twenty-five books on a wide range of subjects including spirituality, health, relationships and creativity. Her books include: The Secret of the Golden Flower; The Healing Power of Dreams; Awakening Intuition; and The Seven Keys to Self-Esteem. She has received international recognition and honors for her work and is the recipient of awards from the American Institute of Holistic Nutrition and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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When we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek. . Josephine Hart
She's always loved writers, even more than the books I...
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She's always loved writers, even more than the books I think. They're like personal friends to her. Josephine Hart
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And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what was the phrase? 'Condemn utterly what is happening, this barbarity.' But that's all we did. Condemn. And march. But not often enough. Josephine Hart
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When boys called Bob and Bono would bring their own wild-rhythm celebration and the world would fall down in worshipful hallelujahs as it again acknowledged Ireland's capacity to create missionaries. So what if they were "the boys in the band"? They sang from a pulpit, an enormous pulpit looking down on a congregation that would knock your eyes out. A city that had produced Joyce and Beckett and Yeats, a country that had produced poet-heroes and more priests and nuns per head of population than almost any on earth was not going to spawn boys who just wanted to stand before a packed hall of gyrating teenagers and strum their guitars and sing. They had to have a message. One of salvation; they were in it to save the world. Like I said, we're teachers, missionaries. Josephine Hart
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My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature Josephine Hart
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Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths. Josephine Hart
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Life… has a way of testing the fault line Josephine Hart
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The weapon of memory, turned on the self, is an apocalyptic sword. Josephine Hart
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I want to know what's wrong with loving someone for life? Even when they're dead? What exactly is wrong with that? Why should I put him away, out of my mind? Like he's out of fashion. Does no one love for ever any more? Is no one built for the long road? Josephine Hart
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Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well. Josephine Hart
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Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home. Josephine Hart
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The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage Josephine Hart