Living the Epilogue » Quotes http://livingtheepilogue.com the unedited adventures of a witty wordsmith Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:45:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Words I’m Living By http://livingtheepilogue.com/words-im-living-by/ http://livingtheepilogue.com/words-im-living-by/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:04:18 +0000 Wendy http://livingtheepilogue.com/?p=1076 Everything comes

to him who

hustles while he waits.

Thomas Edison

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Mom: “Good. I hope you never grow up. Even when you’re old.”

4-year-old: “I’m not going to be old. I’m new.”

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“You can’t conceive, nor can I,

the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”

—Graham Greene

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This is the irrational season

Where love blooms bright and wild.

Had Mary been filled with reason

There’d have been no room for the child.

Madeleine L’Engle

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A little child in a manger.

The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care,

To men He was a stranger,

The safety of the world was lying there,

And the world’s danger.

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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)

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“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”

—e. e. cummings

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