Sunday Quote: Grandeur

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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life

as in hoping for another life

and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

photo Håkon Dahlmo

Our actions

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Not what you are, but what you do is the self.

The self appears in your deeds,

and deeds always mean relationships.

Jung, Seminar on Nietzsche’s Zarathustra

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Sunday Quote: Noticing small gifts…

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We pray for the big things

and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

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Just being

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Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness
and simply be happy.
(De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur

et d’être simplement heureux)

Guillaume Apollinaire

photo jim pennucci

A special day

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But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow,

everything would suddenly become special and precious,

wouldn’t it?

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

 

Sunday Quote: Life passing us by

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Nobody sees a flower really: it is so small

We haven’t time,  and to see takes time

Georgia O’Keefe, American painter

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