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Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Terry Tempest Williams
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: September 8
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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.
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Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.
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I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.
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This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
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The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
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Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.
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When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.
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Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.
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We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.
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Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.
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My body is a compass - and it does not lie.
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Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.
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I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a conspiracy against higher thoughts.
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