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“I have been so busy asking for faith that I forgot to ask for patience. (p330)

— Marjorie Agosín I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014)

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The search for identity and belonging is also a motif for the human condition of the twentieth century-a century defined by displacements and migrations.

Forward to Miriam's Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets (2000)

To write is also to bear witness, to resist the dehumanization of the world, and to tell and reveal.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

Since the earliest history, poetry and the spoken word have been the pulse of human civilization.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

Books unite people and books in translation are the thresholds of other cultures, invitations to travel and to know others.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

Home is understanding and being understood.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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