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Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
David Steindl-Rast
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David Steindl-Rast
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 12
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Non-Fiction Writer
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When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.
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