Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure. Grace King More Quotes by Grace King More Quotes From Grace King We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up. Grace King new-orleans light past The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us. Grace King real way past Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience. Grace King patience world needs The history of one is the history of all. Grace King history Every heart has a miracle to pray for. Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure. To prove that there have never been, that there can never be, miracles does not alter the matter. So long as there is something hoped for, - that does not come in the legitimate channel of possible events, - just so long will the miracle be prayed for. Grace King hope heart long The heart and the almanac never agree about time. Grace King agree heart time