This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.
One day i will have to forgive life for ending. I tell myself I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality.....just be what ti is.
Ich hatte schon oft gehoert wie Augusta gesagt hatte: Wenn du etwas vom jemanden brauchst dann bau dem anderen eine Bruecke auf der ihr euch begegnen koennt.
Impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love.
My awakening had shown me new truths about my religion, my life, and the lives of women. I had survived a landslide of awareness. But I didn't know if I could act on them. When you can't go forward an...
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.
A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt gathered together and encircled by a Presence completely loving, as if I were enveloped by the music of a love song c...
The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy...
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
My mauma was shrewd. She didn’t get any reading and writing like me. Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
Afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.
It’d been Lucy who ran tattling to Miss Mary about my lettering under the tree, and Miss Mary had run tattling to missus. I’d judged Lucy to be stupid, but she was only weak-willed and wanting to get...
Quien cree que no hay nada peor que morirse poco sabe de la vida.
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
The road of 'God alone' struck me with unsettling fear. So I lingered in a kind of limbo. Unable to go back, unable to go on. Uncertain. Tentative. How strange that we tend to stand ankle-deep in the...
We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease. W...
I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.
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