“When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him?
When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?”
― Jan Karon, quote from A New Song
“Don’t feel totally, personally, irrevocably responsible for everything. That’s my job. Signed, God.”
― Jan Karon, quote from A New Song
“Be thankful for the smallest blessing,” Thomas à Kempis had written, “and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God.” Father”
― Jan Karon, quote from A New Song
“A loved one from us has gone, A voice we love is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never will be filled. Estelle Woodhouse, 1898-1987”
― Jan Karon, quote from A New Song
“The world is too much with us; late and soon,’ ” he said, quoting Wordsworth. “ ‘Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;/ little we see in Nature that is ours;/ we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”
― Jan Karon, quote from A New Song
Jan Karon
Born place: in Lenoir, North Carolina, The United States
Born date January 1, 1937
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“Ese amor no deseado, ese deseo no correspondido, es un gran regalo que te hacen.”
― Albert Espinosa, quote from Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren't You and I
“didn’t know one another’s names or ages or reasons for being there, and that was fine, because silence isn’t the same when it’s shared. Its sad and lonely sides are shunted off.”
― Dinaw Mengestu, quote from All Our Names
“Quando qualcuno rischia di perdere davvero una persona che ama tanto, non lo dimentica facilmente. Vuole restarle molto vicino. La vuole tenere stretta.” Sollevò un pugno chiuso per enfatizzare le sue parole.
Shane prese il pugno e lo aprì gentilmente rivelando la mano vuota. “E tu, a cosa ti tieni stretto?” domandò.
Jimmy fece un sorriso. “Nulla”
― Kim Fielding, quote from Rattlesnake
“You don’t reason with a lightning bolt or negotiate with a hurricane,”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Walden and other writings
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