ANCORA IMPARO

“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”

—G.K. Chesterton

“Poverty is vulnerability to death in its crudest forms. Poverty is the relentless daily attrition of contending with the most primitive concerns of human existence: food and cleanliness and cloths and heat and housing and rest and play and work.”

—William Stringfellow (via azspot)

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“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”

—Frederick Buechner

“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.”

—Charles de Lint

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

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Thich Nhat Hanh

I hope you found the help you needed…

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter’s tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”

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Salman Rushdie

I’m so much better with you gone. Discarding your warped version of my heart and mind saved my soul.