Quotes by Phyllis Grissim-Theroux - Page 1

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux / Journalist
Appreciation
Smile
Teacher
Bridges
Mistake
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An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.
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Community
Consciousness
Levels
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To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux / Journalist
Appreciation
Teacher
Moving
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there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.
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Asking
Innocent
Parent
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I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
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Religion
Garden
Thinking
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To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
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Bitter
Circles
Envy
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We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
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Grandchildren
Grandma
Grandmother
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One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.
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Girl
Horse
Religious
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We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.
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Holy
Holy Places
Return
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A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.
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Eye
Hands
Party
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It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the process in some way. It is only when we become disconnected from the process altogether that we should begin to worry.
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Giving
Long
Worry
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one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.
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Baby
Knowing
Odds
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If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.
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Artist
Dark
Light
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Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux / Journalist
Children
Sibling
Water
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