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 Maurice Maeterlinck
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep...
Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.
Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?
For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom, ’ ‘Virtue, ’ ‘Heroism, ’ ‘sublime hours, ’ and ‘great moments of life, ’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it...
