We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. - J. R. R. Tolkien - Quotesmemo.com

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It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

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It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

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I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

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