simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to … - Marjorie Holmes

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It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Marjorie Holmes

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

Blessing, Energy, Improve, Joy, Prayer, Somehow

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Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

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Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

Course, Happens, Let Me, People, Remember

Death is the perfect knowing.

Death, Knowing, Perfect

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

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Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Creature, Entangled, Life, Memories, Memory, Men

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