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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.
– Marilynne Robinson

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  1. She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. – Marilynne Robinson
  2. Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. – Marilynne Robinson
  3. Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy’s. – Toni Morrison
  4. Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  5. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
  6. It’s better to have nothing,’ the children were saying. – Marilynne Robinson
  7. My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine. – Marilynne Robinson
  8. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. – Marilynne Robinson
  9. But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it. – Marilynne Robinson
  10. How I wish you could have known me in my strength. – Marilynne Robinson
  11. That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth. – Marilynne Robinson
  12. I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep. – Marilynne Robinson
  13. There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient. – Marilynne Robinson
  14. remembering and forgiving can be contrary things – Marilynne Robinson
  15. The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global – Marilynne Robinson
  16. I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. – Marilynne Robinson
  17. it’s hard to find time to think about Kansas. – Marilynne Robinson
  18. He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn’t even know he wanted, and here it was. – Marilynne Robinson
  19. There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. – Marilynne Robinson
  20. Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. – Marilynne Robinson
  21. Avoid transgression. How’s that for advice. – Marilynne Robinson
  22. It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. – Marilynne Robinson
  23. Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. – Marilynne Robinson
  24. . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving. – Marilynne Robinson
  25. The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. – Marilynne Robinson
  26. You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. – Marilynne Robinson
  27. …morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. – Marilynne Robinson
  28. I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. – Marilynne Robinson
  29. The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. – Marilynne Robinson
  30. I’ve often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come. – Marilynne Robinson
  31. A scolded mouse knows no grievance. – Andy Harglesis
  32. If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented – Sunday Adelaja
  33. I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away. – Richelle E Goodrich
  34. For whatever it’s worth, I believe we’re born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans. – Liza M Wiemer
  35. To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. – Howard Schultz
  36. If your destiny is glorious, a protracted journey filled with ups and downs is ahead of you. Sit down and strategize to outlast your challenges. – Assegid Habtewold
  37. Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast br???, iron and marble. – William Drummond
  38. Drama, can never outrun, outweigh, or outlast Dreams.Dreams, always has hope cheering it on.And Victory, is always waiting at the finish line. – Keith Hammond
  39. Drama, can never outrun, outweigh, or outlast Dreams.Dreams, always has hope cheering it on.And Victory, is always waiting at the finish line. – Keith Hammond
  40. Sometimes you can’t fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast. – Hilari Bell

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