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And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
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Nicholas Sparks
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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John Lennon
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Our bodies need regular washing because we get dirty everyday. But so do our hearts! Because each day, people hurt us, offend us, forget us, snub us, step on us, reject us. But if we choose to forgive everyone everyday, we cleanse our hearts! We wake up the next morning refreshed and pure and lovely!
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Bo Sรกnchez (You Have The Power to Create Love: Take Another Step on the Simple Path to Happiness)
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life
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Pablo Picasso
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Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.
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Francine Rivers
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My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
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Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
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Leo F. Buscaglia
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Relax. Refresh. Renew. Play. Sing. Laugh. Enjoy. Forgive. Dance. Love. Hug. Share. Kiss. Create. Explore. Hope. Listen. Dare. Trust. Dream. Learn. TODAY!
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Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
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I would regard meanings given by others so far as refreshing boon, I would still be enamoured of rose or any heartless flower's smell if tender tides of your affection had not suffused the pollens of my heart with loving aroma.
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Suman Pokhrel
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Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
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Anthony Liccione
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It hurts to let go, to say goodbye for the final time and remain distant in your closure, it may even tear your heart out to the point of insanity; but somehow in it all you find the pieces of your worth and you start creating yourself again, and in that journey of transformation you find the essence of what truly matters, inner happiness. It's life, we all fall at some stage but it's up to you, to decide how long you want to stay there.
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Nikki Rowe
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I love men too โ€” not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no โ€œcommandment of love.โ€ I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them.
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Max Stirner (The Ego and Its Own)
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The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with out friends, a bathe or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
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C.S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)
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The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous gratifications a taste for more refined pleasures; he has never felt the calm and refreshing satisfaction. . . .of being loved by someone who could understand him.
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Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman)
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There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home. Some find it in the place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert. There are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city. For some, the search is for the imprint of another; a child or a mother, a grandfather or a brother, a lover, a husband, a wife, or a foe. We may go through our lives happy or unhappy, successful or unfulfilled, loved or unloved, without ever standing cold with the shock of recognition, without ever feeling the agony as the twisted iron in our soul unlocks itself and we slip at last into place.
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Josephine Hart
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He laughs again. โ€œYouโ€™re different, Caymen.โ€ โ€œDifferent than what?โ€ โ€œThan any other girl Iโ€™ve met.โ€ Considering most of the girls heโ€™d met probably had fifty times as much money as I did, that wasnโ€™t a hard feat to accomplish. Thinking about that makes my eyes sting. โ€œItโ€™s refreshing. You make me feel normal.โ€ โ€œHuh. I better work on that because youโ€™re far from normal.โ€ He smiles and pushes my shoulder playfully. My heart slams into my ribs. โ€œCaymen.โ€ I take another handful of dirt and smash it against his neck then try to make a quick escape. He grabs me from behind, and I see his hand, full of dirt, coming toward my face when the warning beeps of the tractor start up. โ€œSaved by the gravediggers,โ€ he says.
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Kasie West (The Distance Between Us (Old Town Shops, #1))
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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life! A crust and a corner that love makes precious, With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us; And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter; And that is life!
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar)
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The usual for me." The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.
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Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
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Be real, rare, refreshing you! Fan the flames of self love and ignite your light!
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Amy Leigh Mercree
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Love is always fresh as morning dew.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Find strength in your heartbeat, than weakness with a beat heart. Take each breath as another chance, and love for a new day.
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Anthony Liccione
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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Alexander Pushkin (Eugene Onegin)
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I squint my eyes and glare at him. โ€œI donโ€™t have a crush on Quinn anymore.โ€ He raises a golden eyebrow. โ€œNo?โ€ I shake my head. โ€œNo.โ€ โ€œWhy is that?โ€ I stare at him long and hard, trying to decide what to say. Should I be downright, painfully honest? Iโ€™ve always found that the best way to be, so I nod. โ€œTwo words.โ€ He waits. โ€œDante. Giliberti.โ€ I hear him suck in his breath and I smile. Sometimes, honesty is refreshing and so very worth it. โ€œMe?โ€ He sounds so surprised, as though he doesnโ€™t know that he is practically a living breathing Adonis. I nod. โ€œYou.โ€ He studies me again and I fight the need to fidget as I wait for his reaction. After a minute of nerve-wracking silence, he finally answers. โ€œSo, will you keep the bracelet?โ€ I nod. โ€œCan I kiss you again?โ€ I nod. So he does.
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Courtney Cole (Dante's Girl (The Paradise Diaries, #1))
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Well, that was a beautiful wedding," Beezle said. "The bride has spider goo in her hair and the groom smells like sulfur. the parking-lot-in-front-of-the-burning warehouse location leaves something to be desired, and there was a distinct lack of refreshments, but otherwise, just lovely.
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Christina Henry (Black Howl (Black Wings, #3))
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Toothpaste pie is no substitute for swishing around minty-fresh love in your mouth and then rinsing out with cold, refreshing reality. But donโ€™t take my word for it, because Iโ€™m not a dentist.
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Jarod Kintz (Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.)
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And when I look around the apartment where I now am,โ€”when I see Charlotteโ€™s apparel lying before me, and Albertโ€™s writings, and all those articles of furniture which are so familiar to me, even to the very inkstand which I am using,โ€”when I think what I am to this familyโ€”everything. My friends esteem me; I often contribute to their happiness, and my heart seems as if it could not beat without them; and yetโ€”if I were to die, if I were to be summoned from the midst of this circle, would they feelโ€”or how long would they feelโ€”the void which my loss would make in their existence? How long! Yes, such is the frailty of man, that even there, where he has the greatest consciousness of his own being, where he makes the strongest and most forcible impression, even in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish,โ€”vanish,โ€”and that quickly. I could tear open my bosom with vexation to think how little we are capable of influencing the feelings of each other. No one can communicate to me those sensations of love, joy, rapture, and delight which I do not naturally possess; and though my heart may glow with the most lively affection, I cannot make the happiness of one in whom the same warmth is not inherent. Sometimes I donโ€™t understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her! I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. One hundred times have I been on the point of embracing her. Heavens! what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts. Do not children touch everything they see? And I! Witness, Heaven, how often I lie down in my bed with a wish, and even a hope, that I may never awaken again! And in the morning, when I open my eyes, I behold the sun once more, and am wretched. If I were whimsical, I might blame the weather, or an acquaintance, or some personal disappointment, for my discontented mind; and then this insupportable load of trouble would not rest entirely upon myself. But, alas! I feel it too sadly; I am alone the cause of my own woe, am I not? Truly, my own bosom contains the source of all my pleasure. Am I not the same being who once enjoyed an excess of happiness, who at every step saw paradise open before him, and whose heart was ever expanded towards the whole world? And this heart is now dead; no sentiment can revive it. My eyes are dry; and my senses, no more refreshed by the influence of soft tears, wither and consume my brain. I suffer much, for I have lost the only charm of life: that active, sacred power which created worlds around me,โ€”it is no more. When I look from my window at the distant hills, and behold the morning sun breaking through the mists, and illuminating the country around, which is still wrapped in silence, whilst the soft stream winds gently through the willows, which have shed their leaves; when glorious Nature displays all her beauties before me, and her wondrous prospects are ineffectual to extract one tear of joy from my withered heart,โ€”I feel that in such a moment I stand like a reprobate before heaven, hardened, insensible, and unmoved. Oftentimes do I then bend my knee to the earth, and implore God for the blessing of tears, as the desponding labourer in some scorching climate prays for the dews of heaven to moisten his parched corn.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
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A Blessing; May the light of your soul guide you; May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart; May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul; May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work; May your work never weary you; May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement; May you be present in what you do. May you never become lost in the bland absences; May the day never burden; May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities and promises; May evening find you gracious and fulfilled; May you go into the night blessed, sheltered and protected; May your soul calm, console and renew you.
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John O'Donohue
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Quietly...softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love.
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Shawntel Jefferson (Refreshing Winds 31 Day Devotional)
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to another. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to him is beautiful, he has known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting. A choirboy's voice, a ship in sail, an opening flower, a town at night, the song of the blackbird, a lovely poem, leaf shadows, a child's grace, the starry skies, a cathedral, apple trees in spring, a thorough-bred horse, sheep-bells on a hill, a rippling stream, a butterfly, the crescent moon -- the thousand sights or sounds or words that evoke in us the thought of beauty -- these are the drops of rain that keep the human spirit from death by drought. They are a stealing and a silent refreshment that we perhaps do not think about but which goes on all the time....It would surprise any of us if we realized how much store we unconsciously set by beauty, and how little savour there would be left in life if it were withdrawn. It is the smile on the earth's face, open to all, and needs but the eyes to see, the mood to understand.
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John Galsworthy
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Colour outside the lines, live outside the box. Donโ€™t let anyone tell you what to do, or not. Donโ€™t be afraid, listen to your heart. Heaven is a state of being โ€“ of one-ness, and Hell is a state of being โ€“ lost. We simply need to live as we best define ourselves, find our own ways of being who we are in our world. There is no requirement - only freedom of choice. We should not be judged if we are doing what we think best according to our perceptions at any given time. Guilt should be discarded, moved beyond - what matters is who we choose to be in the next moment, given what we might have learned. We continually create ourselves anew. Forgiving someone is a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto far too long. Take back the energy you have wasted on these things and reclaim your power to be your next best self. Honour the past but refresh, expand, renew, fulfill. Heaven is within us, always reachable.
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Jay Woodman
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Mapenzi ni kiburudisho kikubwa kuliko vyote katika maisha.
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Enock Maregesi
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Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!
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Deeba Salim Irfan
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Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Itโ€™s time to stop allowing people to blame the woman for everything. As women, we try to figure out what they need, what they want; and the entire time weโ€™re stressing ourselves out and they donโ€™t give a shit as long as itโ€™s done. Hell, no. Timeout for that too! We do not give a ratโ€™s ass anymoreโ€”they are quick to blame us for their mess-ups and think we are supposed to make magic happen. It is time to let them deal with it and figure out how they are going to mend their shit. If they want to blame us, let them, who cares? Their shit isnโ€™t our problem. Go ahead, blame the women. We are holding up the peace sign, smiling and laughing, feeling good as we press forward! โ€‹We are free and feel refreshed. It feels good to be the last ones standing. We look at life totally differently, and we now see that itโ€™s okay to be a little rough around the edges.
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Charlena E. Jackson (A Woman's Love Is Never Good Enough)
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Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay." And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)
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The Bible is full of evidence that God's attention is indeed fixed on the little things. But this is not because God is a great cosmic cop, eager to catch us in minor transgressions, but simply because God loves us--loves us so much that we the divine presence is revealed even in the meaningless workings of daily life. It is in the ordinary, the here-and-now, that God asks us to recognize that the creation is indeed refreshed like dew-laden grass that is "renewed in the morning" or to put it in more personal and also theological terms, "our inner nature is being renewed everyday". Seen in this light, what strikes many modern readers as the ludicrous details in Leviticus involving God in the minuitae of daily life might be revisioned as the very love of God.
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Kathleen Norris (The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work)
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Tell yourself, I know why I am here. I know why I am alive. Be honest with yourself and be open to how you want your life to feel. Feeling new, refreshed and learning how to love again. You deserve to smile. All the pain was wearing you down. The battles left you shattered and broken. There were times you were stumbling, but you didnโ€™t fall. Each tear you cried brought you to this moment. Your scars gave you strength to heal, and they taught you how to love and appreciate yourself. You rose above it all!
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Charlena E. Jackson (A Woman's Love Is Never Good Enough)
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If Daddy was a color, he would be a forest greenโ€”thick, lush, calm, whispering refreshing wisdom only few could hear. If Michael was a color, he would be bark brownโ€”cocoa, mocha, chocolate, the color of earth. Quiet, supportive, but strong. A softness that love grows from. Together, they are the tree I lean on when Iโ€™m weary. The tree I swing from. The tree of life when surrounded by death.
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Tiffany D. Jackson (Monday's Not Coming)
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May the light of your soul guide you; May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart; May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul; May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work; May your work never weary you; May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement; May you be present in what you do. May you never become lost in the bland absences; May the day never burden; May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities and promises; May evening find you gracious and fulfilled; May you go into the night blessed, sheltered and protected; May your soul calm, console and renew you.
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John O'Donohue
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I see - Your bare skin Shining the sun of spring Your neck refreshed By an indolent breeze Your tangled hair Our lips shared I see - The ultimate landscape of your beauty.
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Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne
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Rest, refreshed and revived your soul.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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He gives Himself as prize and reward: He is the refreshment of holy soul, the ransom of those in captivity.
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Bernard of Clairvaux (On Loving God)
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The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
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Robertson Davies
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She smiles faintly, and it continues to hover around her lips. This puts me in mind of how refreshing water looks after someone's sprinkled it in a tiny hollow outside on a summer day.
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Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walking along the main street, it suddenly began to rain and, as if on command, there was an umbrella over every head. That was a symbol of cowardice and vulgar effeminacy, the end product of civilization. An incident like the sinking of the Titanic was atavistic, true, but its effect was most refreshing, it was the handwriting on the wall. Afterward, of course, came the hue and cry for more security in shipping. How pitiful, but such weak-willed humanitarianism squared very nicely with the wolfish cruelty and villainy of slaughter on the economic battlefield known as the bourgeois state. War, war ! He was all for it โ€“ the universal lust for war seemed quite honorable in comparison.
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Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain)
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While the noble man lives in trust and openness with himself (gennaios 'of noble descent' underlines the nuance 'upright' and probably also 'naรฏve'), the man of ressentiment is neither upright nor naive nor honest and straightforward with himself. His soul squints; his spirit loves hiding places, secret paths and back doors, everything covert entices him as his world, his security, his refreshment; he understands how to keep silent, how not to forget, how to wait, how to be provisionally self-deprecating and humble. A race of such men of ressentiment is bound to become eventually cleverer than any noble race; it will also honor cleverness to a far greater degree: namely, as a condition of existence of the first importance; while with noble men cleverness can easily acquire a subtle flavor of luxury and subtletyโ€”for here it is far less essential than the perfect functioning of the regulating unconscious instincts or even than a certain imprudence, perhaps a bold recklessness whether in the face of danger or of the enemy, or that enthusiastic impulsiveness in anger, love, reverence, gratitude, and revenge by which noble souls have at all times recognized one another. Ressentiment itself, if it should appear in the noble man, consummates and exhausts itself in an immediate reaction, and therefore does not poison: on the other hand, it fails to appear at all on countless occasions on which it inevitably appears in the weak and impotent.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo)
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We have run into false theology, we have run into "churchianity" and human interpretations, and a hundred other follies, but friends, it is a perfectly lovely and refreshing thing to get back to Jesus.
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John G. Lake (The Collected Works of John G. Lake)
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I could need you in many ways yet I donโ€™t; I love you in many ways. It is peculiar. I need you only in the sense that you need yourself. I donโ€™t expect anything to be mutually intense among us. I somehow like the thought of being the one who is feeling already more than one should. But I need you to believe that you are distinctively refreshing. And uncommon. And intriguing. It is an extreme oddity of mine but I need you to believe that. Call it a form of paranoia; I know that I am feeding your ego right now. Call it self-defense; I am putting in words your uniqueness in an attempt to explain to my own self why is it that I adore you. The truth is: You shine out like the sun shines out and you melt away all my intentions of a fatal, whatsoever, description regarding what is it exactly that you do. There is no exactness. See, it takes suns and miraculous imagery to slightly sketch you in words whereas you probably are as complex as an impressionist painting of impeccable quality. You continually provoke my blatantly awful poetical instincts; that is for sure.
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Katherine Mansfield (Selected Stories)
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Ah! This is retribution for Promethean fire! Besides being patient, you must also love this sadness and respect your doubts and questions. They are an abundant excess, a luxury of life, and they appear more at the summits of happiness, when you have no crude desires. They are not born in the midst of mundanity. They have no place where there is grief and want. The masses go along without knowing the fog of doubts or the anguish of questions. But for anyone who has encountered them at the right time they are dear visitors, not a hammer.' 'But there's no coping with them. They bring anguish and indifference to nearly everything.' she added indecisively. 'But for how long? Afterward they refresh life,' he said. 'They lead to an abyss from which nothing can be gained, and they force you to look again at life, with even greater love. They summon up your tested powers to struggle with it, as if expressly to let them sleep afterward.' 'This fog and these specters torment me!' she complained. 'Everything is bright and all of a sudden a sinister shadow is cast over life! Are there no means against this?' 'What do you mean? Your buttress is in life! Without it, life is sickening, even without any questions!' p. 508
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Ivan Goncharov (Oblomov)
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The Queen dried her tears and looked at him, smiling like a spring shower. In a minute they were kissing, feeling like the green earth refreshed by rain. They thought that they understood each other once more โ€“ but their doubt had been planted. Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
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T.H. White (The Once and Future King)
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By disconnecting from the ever-whirling devices, we reconnect with ourselves. I donโ€™t mean in some heavy, existential, angsty kind of way. I mean reconnecting with ourselves to reconnect with our delights, our memories, our dreams and plans, and our very experience of the present moment in a natural and satisfying way. It provides a refreshing and destressing dip into the fresh lake of life. It also means reconnecting with the people around us, our loved ones, family, and friends.
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Art Rios
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The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. At first he only dipped below the surface of sleep, and skimmed along like a salmon in shallow water, so close to the surface that he fancied himself in air. He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.
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T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone (The Once and Future King, #1))
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ์ •ํ’ˆ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ›„๊ธฐ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
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Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook (The Notebook, #1))
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Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are still our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we celebrate the Eucharist they are there with us, along with the angels and archangels. Why then should we not pray for and with them? The reason the Reformers and their successors did their best to outlaw praying for the dead was because that had been so bound up with the notion of purgatory and the need to get people out of it as soon as possible. Once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should - not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God's joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God?
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N.T. Wright (Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church)
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํด๋ŸฝํŒŒํ‹ฐ์ „์šฉ ์ •ํ’ˆghbํŒ๋งค โ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…โ–ณ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž… ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•์•ฝํšจ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•!
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I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved, and miserable in the separation. When it became noon, and the sun rose higher, I lay down on the grass, and was overpowered by a deep sleep. I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery, The sleep into which I now sunk refreshed me; and when I awoke, I again felt as if I belonged to a race of human beings like myself, and I began to reflect upon what had passed with greater composure; yet still the words of the fiend rung in my ears like a death-knell, they appeared like a dream, yet distinct and oppressive as a reality.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)
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There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul: we search for its outlines all over our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home. Some find it in a place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert. there are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city. For some, the search is for the imprint of another; a child or a mother, a grandfather or a brother, a lover, a husband, a wife, or a foe. We may go through our lives happy or unhappy, successful or unfulfilled, loved, or unloved, without ever standing cold with the shock or recognition, without ever feeling the agony as the twisted iron in our soul unlocks itself and we slip at last into place.
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Josephine Hart
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Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned to you? All the memories of my youth speak to me as I walk, just as the sea shells crunch under my feet on the beach. The crash of every wave awakens far-distant reverberations within me... I hear the rumble of bygone days, and in my mind the whole endless series of old passions surges forward like the billows. I remember my spasms, my sorrows, gusts of desire that whistled like wind in the rigging, and vast vague longings that swirled in the dark like a flock of wild gulls in a stormcloud... On whom should I lean, if not on you? My weary mind turns for refreshment to the thought of you as a dusty traveler might sink onto a soft and grassy bank...
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Gustave Flaubert
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œ ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋งค โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… โ€œThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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Roses, wild roses, everywhere! So plentiful were they, they were not only perfumed the air, they seemed to dye it a faint rose-hue. The colour floated abroad with the scent, and clomb, and spread, until the whole wesr blushed and glowed with the gathered incense of roses. And my heart fainted with longing in my bosom. Could I but see the spirit of the Earth, as I saw once the in dwelling woman of the beech-tree, and my beauty of the pale marble, I should be content. Content! -Oh, how gladly would I die of the light of her eyes! Yea, I would cease to be, if that would bring me one word of love from the one mouth. The twilight sand around, and infolded me with sleep. I slept as I had not slept for months. I did not awake till late in the morning; when, refreshed in body and mind I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
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George MacDonald (Phantastes)
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ›„๊ธฐ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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She looked surprised. โ€œYou remember.โ€ โ€œOf course.โ€ Blake couldnโ€™t forget the way Farrahโ€™s eyes lit up when she talked about the competition. She was studying interior design because she loved it, not because everyone said she should. Her passion was refreshingโ€ฆand depressing. Blake had never felt that way about football or anything else in his life, really.
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Ana Huang (If We Ever Meet Again (If Love, #1))
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There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body
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์ •ํ’ˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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Great Goddess, Great God, I come before you at the end of another day and thank you for the many blessings in my life. For friends and family and pets, for home and health and good food. I thank you for (the names of whichever people crossed my path that day in meaningful ways) and for (whatever good things happened or whichever not-so-great things they helped me survive.). Please help me to get a good night's sleep so I might wake in the morning refreshed and energized and ready to face another day. Watch over me and those I love. So mote it be.
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Deborah Blake (Everyday Witchcraft: Making Time for Spirit in a Too-Busy World (Everyday Witchcraft, 4))
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œ ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋งค โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… โ€œThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us.
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๋ž์Šˆ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ์ •ํ’ˆ๊ตฌ์ž…๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œํŒŒํผํŒ๋งคโ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…
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For Sleep O heavenly Father, you give your children sleep for the refreshing of soul and body: Grant me this gift, I pray; keep me in that perfect peace which you have promised to those whose minds are fixed on you; and give me such a sense of your presence, that in the hours of silence I may enjoy the blessed assurance of your love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ย  In the Morning This is another day, O Lord. I know not what it will bring forth, but make me ready, Lord, for whatever it may be. If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly. Make these words more than words, and give me the Spirit of Jesus. Amen.
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The Episcopal Church (The Book of Common Prayer)
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There must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receivโ€™d with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that followโ€™d, And else when I carousโ€™d, or when my plans were accomplishโ€™d, still I was not happy, But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refreshโ€™d, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn, When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light, When I wanderโ€™d alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise, And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy, O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourishโ€™d me more, and the beautiful day passโ€™d well, And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend, And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores, I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me, For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, And his arm lay lightly around my breast โ€“ and that night I was happy.
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Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)
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People are always telling us what they think we want to hear. Raw honesty is a refreshing change, isn't it?" "Refreshing for you, perhaps," Phoebe said with a reluctant smile. "Well, you'll certainly get that from Pandora. She's incapable of being awed by anyone." "It's one of the reasons I love her," her brother admitted. "I also love her wit, her zest for life, and the fact that she needs me to keep her from walking in circles.
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Lisa Kleypas (Devil's Daughter (The Ravenels, #5))
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Across the dark night, we are not afraid. Our love is the star that guides us. Through the empty desert, we do not thirst. Our love is the water that refreshes. On the long journey, we do not weary. Our love is the truth that offers strength. As the mountains rise before us, we are not discouraged. Our love is the hope that waits on the other side. When we are together, let us hold hands. Our love is the promise that is never broken.
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William Kent Krueger (Sulfur Springs (Cork O'Connor, #16))
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Are you going to hand me over to him?" "I haven't decided yet," I teased, and he smiled again, erasing his momentary seriousness. "So, where'd you get the suit?" "Believe it or not, that lovely friend of yours, Willa," Loki said. "She brought me a whole slew of clothes last night. When I asked her why she was being so generous, she said it was out of fear that I would run around naked." I smiled. "That does sound like something you would do. Why are you wearing all black, though? Didn't you know you were going to a wedding?" "On the contrary," he said, doing his best to look unhappy. "I'm in mourning over the wedding." "Oh, because it's too late?" I asked. "No, Wendy, it's never too late." His voice was light, but his eyes were solemn. "May I cut in?" the best man asked. "No, you may not," Loki said. I'd started to move away from him, but he held fast. "Loki," I said, and my eyes widened. "I'm still dancing with her," Loki said, turning to look at him. "You can have her when I'm done." "Loki," I said again, but he was already twirling me away. "You can't do that." "I just did." He grinned. "Oh, Wendy, don't look so appalled. I'm already the rebel Prince of thine enemy. I can't do much more to tarnish my image." "You can certainly tarnish mine," I pointed out. "Never," Loki said, and it was his turn to look appalled. "I'm merely showing them how it's done." He began spinning me around the dance floor in grand arcs, my gown swirling around me. He was a brilliant dancer, moving with grace and speed. Everyone had stopped to watch us, but I didn't care. This was the way a Princess was supposed to dance on her wedding day. The song ended, switching to something by Mozart, and he slowed, almost to a stop, but he kept me in his arms. "Thank you." I smiled. My skin felt flushed from dancing, and I was a little out of breath. "That was a wonderful dance." "You're welcome," he said, staring intently at me. "You are so beautiful." "Stop," I said, looking away as my cheeks reddened. "How can you blush?" Loki asked, laughing gently. "People must tell you how beautiful you are a thousand times a day." "It's not the same," I said. "It's not the same?" Loki echoed. "Why? Because you know they don't mean it like I do?" We did stop dancing them, and neither of us said anything. Garrett came up to us. He smiled, but his eyes didn't appear happy. "Can I cut in?" Garrett asked. "Yes," Loki said, shaking off the intensity he'd had a moment ago, and grinned broadly at Garrett. "She's all yours, good sir. Take care of her." He patted Garrett on the arm once for good measure and gave me a quick smile before heading back over to the refreshment table.
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Amanda Hocking (Ascend (Trylle, #3))
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On a far-wandering walk a thousand useful and usable thoughts occur to me, while shut in at home, I would lamentably wither and dry up. Walking is for me not only healthy, and lovely, it is also of service - not only lovely, but also useful. A walk advances me professionally, and provides me at the same time with amusement and joy; it conforts, delights and refreshes me, is a pleasure for me, but also has the peculiarity that it spurs me on and allures me to further creation, since it offers me as material numerous more or less significant objectivities upon which I can later work industriously at home. Every walk is filled with phenomena valuable to see and feel.
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Robert Walser (The Walk and Other Stories)
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We suffer these things and they fade form memory. But daily, hourly, to give up our own possessions and especially to subordinate our own impulses and wishes to to others - these are hard, hard things; and I don't think they ever get any easier. You can strip yourself, you can be stripped, but still you will reach out like an octopus to seek your own comfort, your untroubled time, your ease, your refreshment. It may mean books or music - the gratification of the inner sense - or it may mean food and drink, coffee and cigarettes. The one kind of giving up is no easier than the other.
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Dorothy Day (The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus (Plough Spiritual Guides: Backpack Classics))
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(Page 288) If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I'd be soaring in flight. -I love poetry so getting to read something as tiny as this was very refreshing. I think I can relate to Hannah because what she is essentially saying is that she loves a lot to the point that if her love were an object in this world.. the entire world would be consumed by it just to show the amount of love she has. It got me confused because I found it kind of selfish of Hannah writing that poem because if she loved everone as deeply as her poems depict.. why would she leave them?
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Jay Asher
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It's only when we understand [Jesus'] presence in the church as being the fulfillment of God's promise in Zephaniah 3:17 to "quiet you with his love" and "rejoice over you with singing" that a crucial aspect of our salvation comes into perspective. Jesus didn't coldly settle accounts for us. He doesn't bark us into improving ourselves. He united us to himself in the glorious communion he has enjoyed for eternity with his heavenly Father. He resides within us to heal the broken places and refresh cauterized hearts. He sings us into a new mode of existence.... When, as Paul does, we imagine Jesus singing nations into submission to his rule, our hearts come joyfully under the sway of a love that is infinite and powerful.
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Reggie M. Kidd (With One Voice: Discovering Christ's Song in Our Worship)
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โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything. Peace (upeksha), tranquility or discrimination. There is no distinction between a loved one and a loved one in true love. Your pain is my pain. My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one body. There is an element of self-disposal in true love. Happiness is no longer personal. Pain is no longer personal. There is no distinction between us. โ€œIn true love The distinction between loved ones and loved ones does not exist. Your pain is my pain. ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๋ถˆ๋ฒ•, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-ํšจ๊ณผ, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ๊ตฌ์ž…, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผํŒ๋งค My happiness is your happiness. Loved ones and loved ones are one bodyโ€ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,โ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ๋งค, ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ-๊ตฌ์ž…
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์ •ํ’ˆ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ๊ตฌ๋งคํ›„๊ธฐ "์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ํƒ‘" ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,โ–ณโ˜…์นดํ†ก:kodak8โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:Komen68โ˜…โ–ณ์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ์ •ํ’ˆํŒ๋งค,์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œํŒ๋งค,์ •ํ’ˆ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,
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It is a source of refreshment, laughter, joy and lifeโ€”and of more power. Remove power and you cut off life, the possibility of creating something new and better in this rich and recalcitrant world. Life is power. Power is life. And flourishing power leads to flourishing life. Of course, like life itself, power is nothingโ€”worse than nothingโ€”without love. But love without power is less than it was meant to be. Love without the capacity to make something of the world, without the ability to respond to and make room for the belovedโ€™s flourishing, is frustrated love. This is why the love that is the heartbeat of the Christian storyโ€”the Fatherโ€™s love for the Son and, through the Son, for the worldโ€”is not simply a sentimental feeling or a distant, ethereal theological truth, but has been signed and sealed by the most audacious act of true power in the history of the world, the resurrection of the Son from the dead. Power at its best is resurrection to full life, to full humanity. Whenever human beings become what they were meant to be, when even death cannot finally hold its prisoners, then we can truly speak of power.
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Andy Crouch (Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power)
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Happy the soul to whom it is given to attain this life with Christ, to cleave with all oneโ€™s heart to him whose beauty all the heavenly hosts behold forever, whose love inflames our love, the contemplation of whom is our refreshment, whose graciousness is our delight, whose gentleness fills us to overflowing, whose remembrance makes us glow with happiness, whose fragrance revives the dead, the glorious vision of whom will be the happiness of all the citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem. For he is the brightness of eternal glory, the splendour of eternal light, the mirror without spot.
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Clare of Assisi
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.... They both professed to be atheists, but, judging by their conduct, they exhibited in their daily lives all those attributes which are fundamental to real, active Christianity. They were thoughtful for my comfort in every way, and shared many of my interests and pursuits with a zest which might well have been envied by much younger people. Together we went down to Torquay for a two-week holiday and returned to Brentwood completely refreshed.
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E.R. Braithwaite (To Sir, With Love)
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œ ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋งค โ˜…์นดํ†ก:dsk499โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:dssk49โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… โ€œThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:dsk499โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:dssk49โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.
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"์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ํƒ‘"โ˜…์นดํ†ก:dsk499โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:dssk49โ˜…์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ์ •ํ’ˆํŒ๋งค,์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œํŒ๋งค,์ •ํ’ˆ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•
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A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull of the undertow. Rising, it moved further up the white sandy beach away from the cold water. The creature collapsed onto the cool sand as the crescent moon above shone on his sleek gray skin revealing two immense leather-like wings protruding from his back. Exhaustion clouded his mind. The darkness of night was soothing, refreshing. Somehow he knew it would bring him strength and sustenance. The creature watched as a great rolling storm cloud sunk into the salty water before him and he tried to remember why he had come.
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Alaina Stanford (As Darkness Falls (Hypnotic Journey #3))
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Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven!
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Evangeline - A Tale of Acadie (Annotated))
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For my number-one favorite kill, I almost went with Johnny Depp being eaten alive and then regurgitated by his own bed in A Nightmare on Elm Street, but the winner, by a finger bladeโ€™s width, has to be the death of that feisty Tina (Amanda Wyss), who put up such a fight while I thrashed her about on the ceiling of her bedroom. Freddy loves a worthy adversary, especially if itโ€™s a nubile teenaged girl. A close second goes to my hearing-impaired victim Carlos (Ricky Dean Logan) in Nightmare 6. In these uber-politically-correct times, itโ€™s refreshing to remember what an equal opportunity killer Freddy always was. Not only does he pump up the volume on the hearing aid from hell, but he also adds a nice Latino kid to his body count. Today they probably wouldnโ€™t even let Freddy force-feed a fat kid junk food. Dream death number three is found in a sequence from Nightmare 3. Freddy plays puppet master with victim Phillip (Bradley Gregg), converting his arm and leg tendons into marionette strings, then cutting them in a Freddy meets Verigo moment. The kiss of death Profressor Freddy gives Sheila (Toy Newkirk) is great, but not as good as Al Pacinoโ€™s in The Godfather, so my fourth pick is Freddy turning Debbie (Brooke Theiss) into her worst nightmare, a cockroach, and crushing her in a Roach Motel. A classic Kafka/Krueger kill. For my final fave, you will have to check out Freddy vs. Jason playing at a Hellโ€™s Octoplex near you. Hereโ€™s a hint: the hockey-puck guy and I double team a member of Destinyโ€™s Child. Yummy! Now whereโ€™s that Beyonceโ€ฆ
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Robert Englund (Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams)
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๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… ํ™˜๊ฐ์ œ ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋งค โ˜…์นดํ†ก:dsk499โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:dssk49โ˜… ํŒŒํผ ํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒŒํผ ๊ตฌ์ž… โ€œThere must be joy (mudita) in love. If love brings only sorrow, what will you love for? If you know how to please yourself, you will know how to please the other person as well as the whole world. ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”~์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ์šฉ๊ณผ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ˜…์นดํ†ก:dsk499โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:dssk49โ˜… ์•„๋กœ๋งˆํ–ฅ ๋Ÿฌ์‹œ์•„์‚ฐ ๋Ÿฌ์‰ฌํŒŒํผ ์ •ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ตฌ๋งค์ „์— ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ „์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ €ํฌ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•œ์—…์ฒด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋‹˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋Š˜๋„ ์ด๋ป์ง€์‹œ๊ตฌ์š” ๊ธฐ์œํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋˜์„ธ์š”~ใ…Žใ…Ž Joy is not only for others, but also for yourself. Joy is just joy. If you are truly enjoying joy and healthy joy, it is good for others. But it is not good for others, unless it is pleasant, refreshing, and smiling. If you always have joy and joy, you can be a good person to those around you without doing anything.โ€ โ€• "์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ํƒ‘"โ˜…์นดํ†ก:dsk499โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:dssk49โ˜…์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œ์ •ํ’ˆํŒ๋งค,์—‘์Šคํ„ฐ์‹œํŒ๋งค,์ •ํ’ˆ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•
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์—ฌ์„ฑํฅ๋ถ„์ œ ์ถ”์ฒœ 1์œ„์ œํ’ˆ ์š”ํž˜๋นˆ ํšจ๊ณผโ˜…์นดํ†ก:dsk499โ˜…ํ…”๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋žจ:dssk49โ˜…์—ฌ์„ฑํฅ๋ถ„์ œ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,์š”ํž˜๋นˆํŒ๋งค
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The sad truth is that many of us are addicted to our phones because we crave immediate approval and affirmation. The fear we feel in our hearts when we are engaged online is the impulse that drives our "highly selective self-representations." We want to be loved and accepted by others, so we wash away our scars and defects. When we put this scrubbed-down representation of ourselves online, we tabulate the human approval in a commodity index of likes and shares. We post an image, then watch the immediate response. We refresh. We watch the stats climb-or stall. We gauge the immediate responses from friends, family members, and strangers. Did what we posted gain the immediate approval of others? We know within minutes. Even the promise of religious approval and the affirmations of other Christians is a gravitational pull that draws us toward our phones.
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Tony Reinke (12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You)
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His day is done. Is done. The news came on the wings of a wind, reluctant to carry its burden. Nelson Mandelaโ€™s day is done. The news, expected and still unwelcome, reached us in the United States, and suddenly our world became somber. Our skies were leadened. His day is done. We see you, South African people standing speechless at the slamming of that final door through which no traveller returns. Our spirits reach out to you Bantu, Zulu, Xhosa, Boer. We think of you and your son of Africa, your father, your one more wonder of the world. We send our souls to you as you reflect upon your David armed with a mere stone, facing down the mighty Goliath. Your man of strength, Gideon, emerging triumphant. Although born into the brutal embrace of Apartheid, scarred by the savage atmosphere of racism, unjustly imprisoned in the bloody maws of South African dungeons. Would the man survive? Could the man survive? His answer strengthened men and women around the world. In the Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas, on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, in Chicagoโ€™s Loop, in New Orleans Mardi Gras, in New York Cityโ€™s Times Square, we watched as the hope of Africa sprang through the prisonโ€™s doors. His stupendous heart intact, his gargantuan will hale and hearty. He had not been crippled by brutes, nor was his passion for the rights of human beings diminished by twenty-seven years of imprisonment. Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom. When Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote we were enlarged by tears of pride, as we saw Nelson Mandelaโ€™s former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration. We saw him accept the worldโ€™s award in Norway with the grace and gratitude of the Solon in Ancient Roman Courts, and the confidence of African Chiefs from ancient royal stools. No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn. Yes, Mandelaโ€™s day is done, yet we, his inheritors, will open the gates wider for reconciliation, and we will respond generously to the cries of Blacks and Whites, Asians, Hispanics, the poor who live piteously on the floor of our planet. He has offered us understanding. We will not withhold forgiveness even from those who do not ask. Nelson Mandelaโ€™s day is done, we confess it in tearful voices, yet we lift our own to say thank you. Thank you our Gideon, thank you our David, our great courageous man. We will not forget you, we will not dishonor you, we will remember and be glad that you lived among us, that you taught us, and that you loved us all.
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Maya Angelou (His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute)
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I have now traveled so far south that I find myself come to a place where our common expression โ€œwhite as snowโ€ has no useful meaning. Here, one who wishes his words to make plain sense had better say โ€œwhite as cotton.โ€ I will not say that I find the landscape lovely. We go on through Nature to God, and my Northern eye misses the grandeur that eases that ascent. I yearn for mountains, or at least for the gentle ridges of Massachusetts; the sweet folds and furrows that offer the refreshment of a new vista as each gap or summit is obtained. Here all is obvious, a song upon a single note. One wakes and falls asleep to a green sameness, the sun like a pale egg yolk, peering down from a white sky. And the river! Water as unlike our clear fast-flowing freshets as a fat broody hen to a hummingbird. Brown as treacle, wider than a harbor, this is water sans sparkle or shimmer. In places, it roils as if heated below by a hidden furnace. In others, it sucks the light down and gives back naught but an inscrutable sheen that conceals both depth and shallows. It is a mountebank, this river. It feigns a gentle lassitude, yet coiled beneath are currents that have crushed the trunks of mighty trees, and swept men to swift drowningsโ€ฆ
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Geraldine Brooks (March)
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You could hate a sofa, of courseโ€”that is, if you could hate a sofa. But it didn't matter. You still had to get together $4.80 a month. If you had to pay $4.80 a month for a sofa that started off split, no good, and humiliatingโ€”you couldn't take any joy in owning it. And the joylessness stank, pervading everything. The stink of it kept you from painting the beaverboard walls; from getting a matching piece of material for the chair; even from sewing up the split, which became a gash, which became a gaping chasm that exposed the cheap frame and the cheaper upholstery. It withheld the refreshment in a sleep slept on it. It imposed a furtiveness on the loving done on it. Like a sore tooth that is not content to throb in isolation, but must diffuse its own pain to other parts of the bodyโ€”making breathing difficult, vision limited, nerves unsettled, so a hated piece of furniture produces a fretful malaise that asserts itself throughout the house and limits the delight of things not related to it.
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Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye)
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Someone once elaborated on each line of the well-known and much-loved Psalm 23: The Lord is my Shepherd โ€” thatโ€™s relationship! I shall not be in want โ€” thatโ€™s supply! He makes me lie down in green pastures โ€” thatโ€™s rest! He leads me beside quiet waters โ€” thatโ€™s refreshment! He restores my soul โ€” thatโ€™s healing! He guides me in the paths of righteousness โ€” thatโ€™s guidance! For His nameโ€™s sake โ€” thatโ€™s purpose! Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death โ€”thatโ€™s testing! I will fear no evil โ€” thatโ€™s protection! For you are with me โ€” thatโ€™s faithfulness! Your rod and the staff, they comfort me โ€” thatโ€™s discipline! You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies โ€”thatโ€™s hope! You anoint my head with oil โ€” thatโ€™s consecration! My cup overflows โ€” thatโ€™s abundance! Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life โ€”thatโ€™s blessing! And I will dwell in the house of the Lord โ€” thatโ€™s security! Forever โ€” thatโ€™s eternity! AUTHOR OF ELABORATED MATERIAL UNKNOWN
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Ravi Zacharias (The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives)
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There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. She forgot lust and simple caring for. She regarded love as possessive mating, and romance as the goal of the spirit. It would be for her a well-spring from which she would draw the most destructive emotions, deceiving the lover and seeking to imprison the beloved, curtailing freedom in every way." -- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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Toni Morrison
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At the heart of God is the desire to give and to forgive. Because of this, he set into motion the entire redemptive process that culminated in the cross and was confirmed in the resurrection. The usual notion of what Jesus did on the cross was something like this: people were so bad and so mean and God was so angry with them that he could not forgive them unless somebody big enough took the rap for the whole lot of them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of Godโ€™s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it. This is why Jesus refused the customary painkiller when it was offered him. He wanted to be completely alert for this greatest work of redemption. In a deep and mysterious way he was preparing to take on the collective sin of the human race. Since Jesus lives in the eternal now, this work was not just for those around him, but he took in all the violence, all the fear, all the sin of all the past, all the present, and all the future. This was his highest and most holy work, the work that makes confession and the forgiveness of sins possibleโ€ฆSome seem to think that when Jesus shouted โ€œMy God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?โ€ it was a moment of weakness (Mark 15:34). Not at all. This was his moment of greatest triumph. Jesus, who had walked in constant communion with the Father, now became so totally identified with humankind that he was the actual embodiment of sin. As Paul writes, โ€œhe made him to be sin who knew no sin (2 Cor. 5:21). Jesus succeeded in taking into himself all of the dark powers of this present evil age and defeated every one of them by the light of his presence. He accomplished such a total identification with the sin of the race that he experienced the abandonment of God. Only in that way could he redeem sin. It was indeed his moment of greatest triumph. Having accomplished this greatest of all his works, Jesus then took refreshment. โ€œIt is finished,โ€ he announced. That is, this great work of redemption was completed. He could feel the last dregs of the misery of humankind flow through him and into the care of the Father. The last twinges of evil, hostility, anger, and fear drained out of him, and he was able to turn again into the light of Godโ€™s presence. โ€œIt is finished.โ€ The task is complete. Soon after, he was free to give up his spirit to the father. โ€ฆWithout the cross the Discipline of confession would be only psychologically therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves and objective change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.
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Richard J. Foster (Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth)
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The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as 'Fat Man and Little Boy.') And a river runs through it. And on this river, the Taedong River, is moored the only American naval vessel in captivity. It was in January 1968 that the U.S.S. Pueblo strayed into North Korean waters, and was boarded and captured. One sailor was killed; the rest were held for nearly a year before being released. I looked over the spy ship, its radio antennae and surveillance equipment still intact, and found photographs of the captain and crew with their hands on their heads in gestures of abject surrender. Copies of their groveling 'confessions,' written in tremulous script, were also on show. So was a humiliating document from the United States government, admitting wrongdoing in the penetration of North Korean waters and petitioning the 'D.P.R.K.' (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) for 'lenience.' Kim Il Sung ('Fat Man') was eventually lenient about the men, but not about the ship. Madeleine Albright didn't ask to see the vessel on her visit last October, during which she described the gruesome, depopulated vistas of Pyongyang as 'beautiful.' As I got back onto the wharf, I noticed a refreshment cart, staffed by two women under a frayed umbrella. It didn't look like muchโ€”one of its three wheels was missing and a piece of brick was propping it upโ€”but it was the only such cart I'd see. What toothsome local snacks might the ladies be offering? The choices turned out to be slices of dry bread and cups of warm water. Nor did Madeleine Albright visit the absurdly misnamed 'Demilitarized Zone,' one of the most heavily militarized strips of land on earth. Across the waist of the Korean peninsula lies a wasteland, roughly following the 38th parallel, and packed with a titanic concentration of potential violence. It is four kilometers wide (I have now looked apprehensively at it from both sides) and very near to the capital cities of both North and South. On the day I spent on the northern side, I met a group of aging Chinese veterans, all from Szechuan, touring the old battlefields and reliving a war they helped North Korea nearly win (China sacrificed perhaps a million soldiers in that campaign, including Mao Anying, son of Mao himself). Across the frontier are 37,000 United States soldiers. Their arsenal, which has included undeclared nuclear weapons, is the reason given by Washington for its refusal to sign the land-mines treaty. In August 1976, U.S. officers entered the neutral zone to trim a tree that was obscuring the view of an observation post. A posse of North Koreans came after them, and one, seizing the ax with which the trimming was to be done, hacked two U.S. servicemen to death with it. I visited the ax also; it's proudly displayed in a glass case on the North Korean side.
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Christopher Hitchens (Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays)
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Mrs. Oโ€™Dowd, the good housewife, arrayed in curl papers and a camisole, felt that her duty was to act, and not to sleep, at this juncture. โ€œTime enough for that,โ€ she said, โ€œwhen Mickโ€™s goneโ€; and so she packed his travelling valise ready for the march, brushed his cloak, his cap, and other warlike habiliments, set them out in order for him; and stowed away in the cloak pockets a light package of portable refreshments, and a wicker-covered flask or pocket-pistol, containing near a pint of a remarkably sound Cognac brandy, of which she and the Major approved very much; ... Mrs. Oโ€™Dowd woke up her Major, and had as comfortable a cup of coffee prepared for him as any made that morning in Brussels. And who is there will deny that this worthy ladyโ€™s preparations betokened affection as much as the fits of tears and hysterics by which more sensitive females exhibited their love, and that their partaking of this coffee, which they drank together while the bugles were sounding the turn-out and the drums beating in the various quarters of the town, was not more useful and to the purpose than the outpouring of any mere sentiment could be? The consequence was, that the Major appeared on parade quite trim, fresh, and alert, his well-shaved rosy countenance, as he sate on horseback, giving cheerfulness and confidence to the whole corps. All the officers saluted her when the regiment marched by the balcony on which this brave woman stood, and waved them a cheer as they passed; and I daresay it was not from want of courage, but from a sense of female delicacy and propriety, that she refrained from leading the gallant--personally into action.
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William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)
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He laced his fingers with hers. With the other hand, he stroked her hair. So tenderly. "Now listen to me, Susanna. Do you remember that first night we met in the cove? I can refresh your memory, if need be. You were wearing that horrid bathing costume, and I was wearing a medieval torture device." She smiled. Only he could make her smile at a time like this. "That night, you suggested we make some promises to each other. Well, we're going to make them now. I'm going to promise not to leave. And you're going to promise not to die. All right?" She opened her mouth to speak, but no sound came out. "I promise to stay at your side," he said, "until this is all over. And for the lifetime after that. Now, make your promise to me." His eyes glistened, and his voice was rough with emotion. "Promise me, Susanna. Tell me you won't die. I can't go on without you, love." She gritted her teeth, and managed a tiny nod. Then the blade pierced her. And if there'd been any air left in her lungs, she would have screamed.
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Tessa Dare (A Night to Surrender (Spindle Cove, #1))
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Do I get to choose what she commands you to do? Come on, let me, itโ€™ll be fun.โ€ Jai laughed humorlessly. โ€œI said I donโ€™t want her commanding me to do something asinine, kid.โ€ Charlieโ€™s grin disappeared as quickly as it had surfaced. โ€œI told you not to call me, kid, Jinn boy. Iโ€™m whatโ€ฆ two years younger than you, douchebag?โ€ โ€œTry five. And thatโ€™s only in physical years.โ€ โ€œWhat, you trying to say Iโ€™m not mature?โ€ โ€œOh those socks youโ€™re wearing definitely are. Have you heard of detergent? A shower? Hygiene?โ€ โ€œI shower, you militant, glorified fucking babysitter.โ€ โ€œWatch it, kid.โ€ โ€œKid? I am this close to taking a swing at you, you overblown piece of-โ€ โ€œOh for the love of God!โ€ Ari cried, throwing her hands up, her head pounding. So much for their strained peace treaty. โ€œShut up. Shut up. Shut up!โ€Despite their matching glowers, both of them slammed their lips closed and glared at one another. Ari heaved a sigh of relief as she pulled a chilled can of soda out of the refrigerator. At least the soda still felt nice sliding down her throat. Not the same as an ice cold Coke on a blazing summer day but still nice. She took a refreshing swig and turned towards her male companions once again. Blasts of frost shot out from Jaiโ€™s eyes only to be met by the simmering black heat of Charlieโ€™s angry gaze. Rolling her eyes and biting back the guilt that she was somehow responsible for the animosity between the only two people she could count on right now, Ari spilled into the chair between them and Jai slowly sunk back down into his. โ€œSo what will I command you?โ€ she asked quietly, ignoring the way her fingers trembled as she played with the tab on her soda can. When she got no answer, she glanced up to see Jaiโ€™s face going red, the veins in his head throbbing. โ€œDude, whatโ€™s wrong?โ€ Charlie asked quietly, looking at Ari in alarm. โ€œIs he choking?โ€ Ariโ€™s heart flipped in her chest at the thought and she reached across the table to grab his arm. โ€œJai?โ€ His eyes widened and he waved a large hand at his throat and mouth and then pointed at her. What the hell?! โ€œJesus Christ, he canโ€™t talk?โ€ Charlie asked incredulously. โ€œIs this a joke?
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Samantha Young (Smokeless Fire (Fire Spirits, #1))
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And thither, ere sweet night had slain sweet day, Iseult and Tristram took their wandering way, And rested, and refreshed their hearts with cheer In hunters' fashion of the woods; and here More sweet it seemed, while this might be, to dwell And take of all world's weariness farewell Than reign of all world's lordship queen and king. Nor here would time for three moon's changes bring Sorrow nor thought of sorrow; but sweet earth Fostered them like her babes of eldest birth, Reared warm in pathless woods and cherished well. And the sun sprang above the sea and fell, And the stars rose and sank upon the sea; And outlaw-like, in forest wise and free, The rising and the setting of their lights Found those twain dwelling all those days and nights. And under change of sun and star and moon Flourished and fell the chaplets woven of June, And fair through fervours of the deepening sky Panted and passed the hours that lit July, And each day blessed them out of heaven above, And each night crowned them with the crown of love. Nor till the might of August overhead Weighed on the world was yet one roseleaf shed Of all their joy's warm coronal, nor aught Touched them in passing ever with a thought That ever this might end on any day Or any night not love them where they lay; But like a babbling tale of barren breath Seemed all report and rumour held of death, And a false bruit the legend tear impearled That such a thing as change was in the world.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (Tristram of Lyonesse: And Other Poems)
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As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my intent is to treat of the imperfections that have to be purged by means of the dark night - spiritual persons have numerous imperfections, many of which can be called spiritual lust, not because the lust is spiritual but because it proceeds from spiritual things. It happens frequently that in a person's spiritual exercises themselves, without the person being able to avoid it, impure movements will be experienced in the sensory part of the soul, and even sometimes when the spirit is deep in prayer or when receiving the sacraments of Penance or the Eucharist. These impure feelings arise from any of three causes outside one's control. First, they often proceed from the pleasure human nature finds in spiritual exercises. Since both the spiritual and the sensory part of the soul receive gratification from that refreshment, each part experiences delight according to its own nature and properties. The spirit, the superior part of the soul, experiences renewal and satisfaction in God; and the sense, the lower part, feels sensory gratification and delight because it is ignorant of how to get anything else, and hence takes whatever is nearest, which is the impure sensory satisfaction. It may happen that while a soul is with God in deep spiritual prayer, it will conversely passively experience sensual rebellions, movements, and acts in the senses, not without its own great displeasure. This frequently happens at the time of Communion. Since the soul receives joy and gladness in this act of love - for the Lord grants the grace and gives himself for this reason - the sensory part also takes its share, as we said, according to its mode. Since, after all, these two parts form one individual, each one usually shares according to its mode in what the other receives. As the Philosopher says: Whatever is received, is received according to the mode of the receiver. Because in the initial stages of the spiritual life, and even more advanced ones, the sensory part of the soul is imperfect, God's spirit is frequently received in this sensory part with this same imperfection. Once the sensory part is reformed through the purgation of the dark night, it no longer has these infirmities. Then the spiritual part of the soul, rather than the sensory part, receives God's Spirit, and the soul thus receives everything according to the mode of the Spirit.
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Juan de la Cruz (Dark Night of the Soul)
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I laid out my five expectations that first day [as FBI Director] and many times thereafter: I expected [FBI employees] would find joy in their work. They were part of an organization devoted to doing good, protecting the weak, rescuing the taken, and catching criminals. That was work with moral content. Doing it should be a source of great joy. I expected they would treat all people with respect and dignity, without regard to position or station in life. I expected they would protect the institution's reservoir of trust and credibility that makes possible all their work. I expected they would work hard, because they owe that to the taxpayer. I expected they would fight for balance in their lives. I emphasized that last one because I worried many people in the FBI worked too hard, driven by the mission, and absorbed too much stress from what they saw. I talked about what I had learned from a year of watching [a previous mentor]. I expected them to fight to keep a life, to fight for the balance of other interests, other activities, other people, outside of work. I explained that judgment was essential to the sound exercise of power. Because they would have great power to do good or, if they abused that power, to do harm, I needed sound judgment, which is the ability to orbit a problem and see it well, including through the eyes of people very different from you. I told them that although I wasn't sure where it came from, I knew the ability to exercise judgment was protected by getting away from the work and refreshing yourself. That physical distance made perspective possible when they returned to work. And then I got personal. "There are people in your lives called 'loved ones' because you are supposed to love them." In our work, I warned, there is a disease called "get-back-itis." That is, you may tell yourself, "I am trying to protect a country, so I will get back to" my spouse, my kids, my parents, my siblings, my friends. "There is no getting back," I said. "In this line of work, you will learn that bad things happen to good people. You will turn to get back and they will be gone. I order you to love somebody. It's the right thing to do, and it's also good for you.
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James Comey (A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership)
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Derrick flies through the portal first. โ€œLook at you,โ€ he says, stopping to study me. โ€œAlive. Unscathed. Good. If you hadnโ€™t been, I would have lopped his fingers off.โ€ Kiaran moves to stand beside me. โ€œI would have pulled off your wings.โ€ โ€œIgnore him, pixie.โ€ Aithinne strides into the room, her long coat billowing behind her. โ€œI should have figured heโ€™d be sullen and moody.โ€ Kiaranโ€™s emotionless gaze flickers to her. โ€œPhiuthair.โ€ โ€œBhrร thair.โ€ She stops and studies him. โ€œYou look like hell. I suppose you havenโ€™t fed in a few days, if the lack of gifts is any indication.โ€ โ€œDonโ€™t.โ€ Kiaranโ€™s voice dips in warning. โ€œIโ€™m wonderful, by the way,โ€ she continues, as if he hadnโ€™t spoken. โ€œDo you like my coat? Donโ€™t I look lovely? Arenโ€™t I the best sister for standing here, still willing to talk to you after youโ€™ve ignored me for months, you stubborn bastard?โ€ โ€œWell, this is fun,โ€ Derrick says. โ€œIโ€™m really feeling the love in this room. Itโ€™s beautiful. Aileana, isnโ€™t it beautiful?โ€ โ€œYouโ€™re here because Kam wanted your help. Not because I did.โ€ โ€œDamn it, MacKayโ€”โ€ โ€œYou might not have wanted me,โ€ Aithinne says, ignoring my attempts to stand between them, โ€œbut look how quickly I came. Because I still care about you. Though god only knows why, since youโ€™re such an obstinate pain in my arse.โ€ โ€œI love it when Aithinne curses at people.โ€ Derrick says to me. โ€œI say we let them fight it out. A round of fisticuffs. No killing. Iโ€™ll go and find refreshments.โ€ โ€œOh, for godโ€™s sake,โ€ Sorcha says from behind us. โ€œIf youโ€™re all going to squabble, Iโ€™d prefer to be back in my prison. That wasnโ€™t torture. This is torture.โ€ Derrick peeks through my hair. โ€œWhatโ€™s that murderous arsehole doing here?โ€ Sorcha blinks at him. โ€œWhat did you just call me?โ€ โ€œYou heard me, pointy-toothed hag.โ€ โ€œSorcha can find the Book,โ€ I interrupt. โ€œAnd we need her blood to get there. It was her or Lonnrach.โ€ โ€œSo given a choice between murderous arseholes you chose the one who killed you.โ€ Derrickโ€™s laugh is dry. โ€œThatโ€™s interesting.โ€ โ€œI chose the one who was conveniently chained up, rather than the one in hiding.โ€ Derrick doesnโ€™t look convinced. โ€œAnd weโ€™re just supposed to believe sheโ€™s helping out of the goodness of that black hunk of rock in her chest that she calls a heart?โ€ โ€œIโ€™m standing right here,โ€ Sorcha says sharply. โ€œWish you werenโ€™t,โ€ Derrick sings. Then, to me: โ€œLet me give you some advice, friend. If youโ€™re going to take her along, make her go first. That way you donโ€™t have to worry about her shoving a blade into your back.โ€ โ€œSweet little pixie,โ€ Sorcha says. โ€œIf thereโ€™s one thing you should have learned, itโ€™s that Iโ€™m perfectly willing to stab her in the front.โ€ She turns on her heel and heads toward the great hall, the fabric of her brocade dress sweeping across the ground like a cloak. โ€œIf youโ€™re coming, the door is this way
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Elizabeth May (The Fallen Kingdom (The Falconer, #3))