Than Quotes (page 103)

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• reading
• thinking
• reads

The only think most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting. John Adams

• thinking
• light
• personal

I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment-perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands... Haruki Murakami

• true
• caring
• may

we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth... Salman Rushdie

• eyes
• learning
• words

How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words. Cornelia Funke

• them
• us
• more

There are more of them than us. Herb Caen

• spiritual
• evening
• time

Great blessings await us at this time, and will soon be poured out upon us, if we are faithful in all things, for we are even entitled to greater spiritual blessings than they [the faithful at the time of Christ] were, because they had Christ in person with them, to instruct them in the great plan of salvation. His personal presence we have not, therefore we have need of greater faith. Joseph Smith, Jr.

• imagination
• imagined
• imaginable

But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. Oscar Wilde

• creativity
• betterment
• creative

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness. Michael J. Fox

• fear
• journey
• sorrows

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. Alan Paton

• scientific
• wellness
• empty

As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done not on an empty road at midnight. Loren Eiseley

• nature
• imagination
• elegance

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. Carl Sagan

• little
• may
• player

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. Edgar Allan Poe

• proposal
• rebel
• exercise

Not that he [Uzbek] rejected Mendel's proposals or rebelled against his decisions; but he exercised a subtle, passive abrasion against every active thrust: like dust in a watch, Mendel thought to himself. He's got dust in him, even though he is young. It's stupid to say the young are strong. You understand many things better at thirty than at twenty and you can also bear them better. Primo Levi

• love
• she
• age

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives. Pat Conroy

• best
• doing your best
• imports

Doing your best is more important than being your best. Shannon Miller