There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
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David Foster Wallace
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for...
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Anthony De Mello
It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.
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Roy T. Bennett
Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Diana Gabaldon
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.
While the egg yolks cooled, he directed the beaters at the egg whites, setting the mixer on high speed that sent small bubbles giggling to the side of the bowl, where a few became many until they were a white froth rising up and then...
Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.
It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.
She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.
