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“Don't you know That lovers make the rains, Call forth the sun, Re-route hurricanes, And exorcise earthquakes for fun.”

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James Kavanaugh was an American priest born on September 17, 1928, and passed away on December 29, 2009. He is known for his contributions to theology and spiritual life. more

“I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery & unspeakable beauty. We like forests & mountains, deserts & hidden rivers, & lonely cities. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know.”

Knows Joy Love Is Cities Millions Taken Our Lives Mystery Sadness Share Mountain Ocean Laughter Rivers Lonely Unhappy Forests Desert Unspeakable Searchers

Author:James Kavanaugh

“For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.”

Men Beautiful Asks Lovers Men And Women Lonely Dare Gentle Dreamer Wanderers Lonely Man

Author:James Kavanaugh

“We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.”

Want Giving Littles Beautiful Wall Prove Prison Wander Ambitious Locks Searchers Prison Walls

Author:James Kavanaugh

“Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.”

Eye Wish Missing Blind Filled Wings Shining Folks Fairy Faerie

Author:Rose Fyleman

“And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?”

Littles Lasts Values Short Time

Author:Alice Steinbach

“I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.”

People Home Past Lost Longing Homesick

Author:Alice Steinbach

“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.”

People Writing Persons Feelings Powerful Emotional Speech Letters Phones Observation Intimate Permit Phone Calls Syntax

Book:Educating Alice

Source: Educating Alice

“Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.”

Men Long Would Be Identity Needed Lonely Independent Divorce Better Off Being Lonely

Author:Alice Steinbach

“Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.”

Wells Joy Fall Danger Get Up Better Off

Author:Alice Steinbach

“Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.”

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