Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
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The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
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I don't think anyone can do anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.
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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
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I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
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This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this.
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When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.
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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
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