"it's an aching kind of growing."

"But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." - Hamlet: Act I, Scene II 🌨

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Hello, everyone! 🔅



I've been on Wattpad for a decent amount of time, and the evolution of my interests and personality is something that you can probably see reflected in my profile. I'm not very active, as I'm usually swamped with just life, but I do check back regularly!



My collections of little quotes in the Conservation section of my Wattpad is partially for my enjoyment as well as yours! I hope you find even a little sentence that stirs the soul. 

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"What is wrong with us? What is this? What heardest thou? The unlearned start up and 'take' heaven, and we, with our learning, but wanting heart, see where we wallow in flesh and blood! Because others have preceded us, are we ashamed to follow, and not rather ashamed at not following?" - Saint Augustine of Hippo |Confessions|



"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." 

- Carl Jung



 "We feel inclined to rush out in a panic and throw ourselves into it. Then it is that we must get a grip on the reins and say, 'Gently now! First of all, none of this all must break in on me now. The first hour of my morning belongs to God. Whatever works for the day He gives me I will set about, and He will give me the power to accomplish it.' So I will go in unto the altar of God." - Edith Stein, Jewish Feminist, Holocaust Victim and Discalced Carmelite |The Ways to Interior Life|



"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle." - Kurt Vonnegut |Palm Sunday|