Annie Dillard Quotes About Heart
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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