Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.
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Margaret Atwood
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom
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Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.
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Ziad K. Abdelnour
Past tears are present strength.
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George MacDonald
That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.
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Stephanie Kuehn
More Quotes By Julius Lester
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while,...
... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.
He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
