The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be on to something. Not to be on to something is to be in despair.

—Walker Percy

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About Walker Percy

Portrait of Walker Percy

Walker Percy, OblSB (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose works explored alienation, existentialism, faith, and the limits of science in modern life. A prominent Southern and Catholic literary figure, Percy is especially noted for his novels set in New Orleans. His first, The Moviegoer...

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Master Shaku Soen liked to take an evening stroll through a nearby village. One day he heard loud lamentations from a house and, on entering quietly, realized that the householder had died and the family and neighbors were crying. He sat down and cried with them. An old man noticed him and remarked, rather shaken on seeing the famous master crying with them, "I would have thought that you at least were beyond such things." "But it is this which puts me beyond it," replied the master with a sob.

—Irmgard Schloegl

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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

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No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

—Courtney Milan in Unraveled

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

—Susan Griffin

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