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Limited information available. Rachel Simon is reported to be an American author born in 1959, but specific biographical details, notable works, and achievements cannot be verified with the available information.

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All Ifs Important Kind Persons Rainy Rainy Day Religion Two Adversity Bigs

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“...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.”

Sadness Love Good Byes

Book:The Story of Beautiful Girl

Source: The Story of Beautiful Girl

“When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.”

Mean Religion Speak Constant Inward Communion Communion With God

Book:Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

Source: Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

“In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.”

May Spirit Religion Given Difficult Women Religious Forget Adversity Prosperity Times Of Adversity

Book:Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

Source: Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890

“A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.”

World Persons Fighting Built Embrace Fists

Author:Rachel Simon

“There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.”

Ifs Kind Stills Two Bigs Wanted Sadness Rainy Rainy Day

Book:The Story of Beautiful Girl

Source: The Story of Beautiful Girl

“Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.”

People Made Important Space Silence Listening Needed

Book:The Story of Beautiful Girl

Source: The Story of Beautiful Girl

“There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.”

Kind Persons Two Book Students Understood Library Insight New Things Rereading

Author:Rachel Simon

“A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.”

Ifs Important Lost Rainy Rainy Day Lost Hope Important Days

Book:The Story of Beautiful Girl

Source: The Story of Beautiful Girl

“Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.”

Way Feels Fields Lows Destination Strawberries Feeling Down

Book:Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey

Source: Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey

About the Author

Born: 1959
Known for: Author
Quotes: 9

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The Story of Beautiful GirlRelated source material

Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890Related source material

Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life JourneyRelated source material

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