Thing Quotes (page 924)

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• learning
• evening
• dead

There are things to be learned even from the dead. George R. R. Martin

• will
• desire
• rest

With no desire, at rest and still, All things go right as of their will. Lao Tzu

• waiting
• different
• writing

Story ideas had never been a problem for him, there'd always been more ideas than time to write them, he'd reject one perfectly good notion because he fell more simpatico toward a different one. But of course he could never go back to any of those ancient story stubs, they wouldn't still have juice in them. For him, creating a novel was like gardening; you choose your seed, you treat it exactly the way the package says, and gradually a thing of beauty - or of sturdiness, or of nutrition -... Donald E. Westlake

• willful
• stopped
• desires

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire. Jenny Holzer

• affection
• evening
• words

A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other Arthur Conan Doyle

• lost
• play
• feeling

I would begin to think that I wanted to do something, but then I would become incapable of distinguishing between the probable results of doing it and of not doing it. I often get the feeling that things around me have lost their proper balance, though it could be that my perceptions are playing tricks on me. Haruki Murakami

• manly
• words
• long love

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word 'love' and look on things as if man were the centre of them. C. S. Lewis

• evening
• contentment
• appearance

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. Epictetus

• reality
• things
• such things

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality Maurice Sendak

• horrid
• worst
• things

Of all horrid things, leave-taking is the worst. Jane Austen

• love
• giving
• world

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything. Theodore Dreiser

• sock
• plain
• plainly

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw. Ludwig Wittgenstein

• haters
• better
• institute

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them. Pat Conroy

• feeling
• mind
• mindfulness

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted. Mindy Kaling

• life
• to live
• real

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it. George Orwell