You can't test courage cautiously.

Quote by Annie Dillard

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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from...

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from...

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the...

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?...

Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?...

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane...

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane...

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God...

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God...

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it...

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it...

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go...

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go...

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It...

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved...

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

Cruelty is a mystery and a waste of pain

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing....

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing....

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not...

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not...

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to...

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to...

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for...

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for...

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.