I thought of you when I read this quote from "Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel)" by Jan Karon -"Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us– whether their words appear to be deep or shallow– listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls. Jan Karon
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
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Amy Carmichael
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
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Antonio Porchia
Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
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Roy T. Bennett
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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Marcus Aurelius
More Quotes By Jan Karon
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.
That was his favorite thing about books–they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.
