The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
More Quotes from Lillian Smith:
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past to lay down one's power for others in need to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God this is what man's journey is about, I think.Lillian Smith
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Lillian Smith
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
Lillian Smith
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
Lillian Smith
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith
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