[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fyFAi0vVYp_I_pLC8bagzvtH8rT2M9xXB8M88BSOJb74":3,"$f6fPJpfJp8jGBTYvLZl5N4Ol4PQ33GLdsDwtzg0FaeiI":16},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"bio_jsonld":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},44154,"Marjorie Holmes","M",31,null,"marjorie-holmes",[12],{"tag_id":13,"tag_name":14,"tag_count":15},382,"children",5,{"quotes":17,"pagination":103},[18,26,33,39,45,51,57,69,80,92],{"id":19,"quote_text":20,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":23,"source":24,"quote_tag":25,"commentary":9},3815533,"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":27,"quote_text":28,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":22,"author":30,"source":31,"quote_tag":32,"commentary":9},3255915,"One day you’re racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you – and nobody even notices.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":34,"quote_text":35,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":22,"author":36,"source":37,"quote_tag":38,"commentary":9},3255899,"What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child’s hand in yours? It is soft. It is small and warm. It is as innocent and guileless as a rabbit or a puppy or a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":40,"quote_text":41,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":22,"author":42,"source":43,"quote_tag":44,"commentary":9},3255862,"Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realize you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":22,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":9},3255853,"A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":52,"quote_text":53,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":22,"author":54,"source":55,"quote_tag":56,"commentary":9},3255839,"Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can’t be taken from us. The only thing we really own.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":58,"quote_text":59,"author_id":5,"source_id":60,"has_image":22,"author":61,"source":62,"quote_tag":63,"commentary":9},1670160,"Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .",4,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[64],{"id":65,"tag":66},4662717,{"id":67,"tag_name":68},56,"thinking",{"id":70,"quote_text":71,"author_id":5,"source_id":60,"has_image":22,"author":72,"source":73,"quote_tag":74,"commentary":9},1670153,"Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[75],{"id":76,"tag":77},4662709,{"id":78,"tag_name":79},290458,"let-me",{"id":81,"quote_text":82,"author_id":5,"source_id":60,"has_image":22,"author":83,"source":84,"quote_tag":85,"commentary":91},1670145,"Death is the perfect knowing.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[86],{"id":87,"tag":88},4662703,{"id":89,"tag_name":90},119,"death","**The Backstory**\n\nMarjorie Holmes, a prolific American writer and essayist, penned these poignant words in one of her many essays collected in \"Letters from Father Christmas\" (1976). The quote is likely set against the backdrop of World War II, an era marked by profound loss, uncertainty, and existential questioning. During this time, Marjorie was immersed in grief herself, having lost a close friend to the war.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nAt first glance, \"Death is the perfect knowing\" may seem like a morbid or nihilistic statement. However, upon closer inspection, it reveals itself as a profound commentary on the human condition. By equating death with perfection, Marjorie is not romanticizing mortality but rather highlighting its singular quality of transcendence – an end to human striving and struggle that, paradoxically, allows for true understanding.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nTo apply this mindset in your own life, adopt a similarly radical perspective on challenges by acknowledging the impermanence of all things. Recognize that your attachment to outcomes, desires, or even goals often stems from an unconscious fear of death – not literal physical death but the end of what you know and cling to. By embracing the inevitability of change and transformation, you can find a profound liberation in letting go, allowing yourself to \"know\" without the burden of attachments.\n\n(Note: Marjorie Holmes' writings are less known for their depth or complexity compared to other authors. If you prefer, I can provide an alternative quote from another author.)",{"id":93,"quote_text":94,"author_id":5,"source_id":60,"has_image":22,"author":95,"source":96,"quote_tag":97,"commentary":9},1670141,"When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[98],{"id":99,"tag":100},4662696,{"id":101,"tag_name":102},60,"writing",{"currentPage":104,"totalPages":60,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":105},1,10]