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“Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.”

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Frederick Buechner, born on July 11, 1926, is a renowned American writer. His works span across various genres including novels, essays, and plays, known for their profound religious and philosophical reflections. more

“I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . . then I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home . . . If we are not rooted deeply in place, making that commitment to dig in and stay put . . . then I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. Then we enter a place of true desolation.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Home Names I Believe Realizing Community Our Lives Commitment Neighborhood Rooted Abstraction Our Community Desolation Specificity

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.”

Knows World Want Writing Body Eye Teach Separation

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?”

Writing Years Important Past Remember Memories Roots Twenties Foreigners Why Me

Author:Isabel Allende

“Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.”

Writing Use Excuse Shut Up

Book:Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

“Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.”

Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children

“You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.”

Giving Over You Negativity Destroyers Meddling Co Worker Sister In Law Backstabbing

Author:Anais Nin

“Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.”

Looks Caught Liberated

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.”

Giving Littles Bigs Thanks Little Things Big Things

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.”

Trying Harder Saint

Author:Peter Kreeft

“It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.”

World Said Would Be Three Evil Source Devil Flesh Innocent

Book:Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion

Source: Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion

Quote by Frederick Buechner

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