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Thornton Wilder Quotes

«When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.»
«The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.»
Author: Thornton Wilder | About: Animals
«The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose»
Author: Thornton Wilder | About: Choice, Decision | Keywords: aware, decisions, forced
«We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.»
Author: Thornton Wilder | Keywords: treasures
«When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home»
«I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.»
«Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.»
«There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.»
«Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.»
Author: Thornton Wilder | About: Hope | Keywords: courageous, ridiculous
«Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.»

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