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Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
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November 4, 2018 by katmcdaniel

At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Anticipation, boredom, chance, change, expectation, Gustave Flaubert, hope, life, longing, Madame Bovary, melancholy, time, uncertainty, waiting
Quote for Today: Mona Soorma
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May 14, 2018 by katmcdaniel

From a place of darkness Stars watch the wounded dreams sigh On their bed of aches and broken skin But …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: aspiration, darkness, dreams, longing, Mona Soorma, pain, purpose, reaching, rise, stars, unrequited, up, watch, wounded
Quote for Today: Thomas Mann
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March 6, 2018 by katmcdaniel

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: attachment, complexity, Death in Venice, escape, excellence, forbidden, hide, longing, nothingness, perfection, rest, sea, simplicity, Thomas Mann
Quote for Today: Howard Thurman
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February 18, 2018 by katmcdaniel

One day there will stand up in their midst one who will tell of a new sickness among the children …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: boundaries, brothers, community, connectedness, diversity, flourish, growth, Howard Thurman, humanity, longing, patriarchy, siblings, strength, The Search for Common Ground
Quote for Today: Marilynne Robinson
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May 11, 2017 by katmcdaniel

For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: craving, dream, having, Housekeeping, humanity, intensity, lack, longing, loss, Marilynne Robinson, need, senses, wholeness, wildness
Where is the Refuge? The Melody of our Alienation
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March 23, 2017 by katmcdaniel

The power of the spoken word and the captured image can be woven together in a way that evades description. …
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Category: Exploring Culture, Videos | Tags: Abdulaziz Al Maqaleh, Abdurahman Hussain, Arabic, hope, longing, nostalgia, peace, poetry, Sana'a, Sarah Ahmed, sensuality, Tony Anderson, Yemen
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
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March 6, 2017 by katmcdaniel

There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Cup of Gold, desire, explorer, John Steinbeck, journey, life, longing, movement, nameless, outward, process, transformation, will, yearning

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