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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become ... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. — May Sarton
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. — Alan K. Simpson
I was trying to discover examples of a living restoration, trying to go beyond discussions about correct historic colors, materials, and techniques.
I looked to the past for guidance, to find the graces we need to save. I want to be an importer. This is not nostalgia; I am not nostalgic. I am not looking for a way back. "From where will a renewal come to us, to us who have devastated the whole earthly globe?" asked Simone Weil. "Only from the past if we love it."
What I am looking for is the trick of having the same ax twice, for a restoration that renews the spirit, for work that transforms the worker. We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.
Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age — Howard Mansfield
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God. — Jonathan Edwards
Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter. — Michael R. Burch
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. — Elizabeth Edwards
As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters. — Leo Gordon
I was sad. I was heartbroken. I was scared.
But it was only through adversity that I found my saving graces.
Sometimes they came from unexpected sources - a song, a challenge, or a friend.
It was my responsibility to make the most of them, apply them to my life, act on them, and rise to the occasion. — Jennifer Lopez
Our lives and the love we share are the saving graces of that night. — Jessica Park
All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew. — Patricia Gaffney
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard. — Jane Hirshfield