My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.Michel de Montaigne
“Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass away; God never changes.”
Mystic and writer · 1515 – 1582
Teresa of Ávila was a Spanish Carmelite nun, mystic and reformer of the Carmelite order. Her spiritual classics The Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection, written with disarming directness, made her one of the most influential women writers of early modern Europe.
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