God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.
タグ: god-s-presence, god-s-absence, god

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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
タグ: balance, rhythm, harmony, matter, happiness
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
タグ: art
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
タグ: squeeze, tighter, less, you
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
タグ: settle, biggest, too, little, human, temptation
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
タグ: reflection, beginning, love-is, relationship, love
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