Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.
I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.
Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.
The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
Animals and humans come in many different sizes and colors, but we all have the same loving heart and soul.
The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.
Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.
He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.
We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.
I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.
Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked. "If I did?" "I don't like it." He grinned. "It stays, Angel.
I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.
Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.
I would advise any startup to take the time to define their unique culture and work at making it a reality.
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.
The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.
The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.