Phyllis Theroux Quotes

#1. Every house has its own private cup of sorrow. (3)

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#2. I can feel my heart growing daily, which has its uncomfortable aspects, as if it could fall with the weight of love and break.

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#3. We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

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#4. My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

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#5. To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

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#6. I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

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#7. Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can't send any other way can be heard.

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#8. An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

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#9. Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.

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#10. Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

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#11. Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.

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#12. There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the darkness. Rereading it was counterproductive. What I needed was a place in which to collect the light.

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#13. His eyes were sharp but kind, and it seemed to amuse him to see children misbehave when he knew that deep down they didn't really want to misbehave, but were just feeling lonely or misunderstood or wanted to go outside and play instead of sitting in a hot classroom. (26)

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#14. Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

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