"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."
"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."
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Faith Baldwin
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Faith Baldwin was a prominent American author known for her insightful novels that explore themes of love and resilience, particularly in works like 'The House of the Seven Gables.'
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"Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence."
"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees."
"I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance."
"I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement."
"Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping."