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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

Kathleen Norris

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Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.
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Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.
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Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.
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To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.
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Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
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Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
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Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.
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