Top 9 Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Quotes
#1. We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
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#2. A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.
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#3. We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.
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#4. One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.
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#5. One of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.
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#6. There is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.
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#7. To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
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#8. It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the process in some way. It is only when we become disconnected from the process altogether that we should begin to worry.
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#9. If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.
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