If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still." And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
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Paul Murray
When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
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Patricia Briggs
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which...
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Simone Weil
Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
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Edmund Spenser
He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence upon truth.
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More Quotes By Dante Alighieri
Love, that moves the sun and the other stars
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
