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Things Quotes (page 298)

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form. Dorothy Allison
Horace Greeley quote: "Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings,..."
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character. Horace Greeley
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance. Viktor E. Frankl
Terry Goodkind quote: "Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned"
Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned Terry Goodkind
Henry Miller quote: "The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I..."
The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. Henry Miller
C. S. Lewis quote: "I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned..."
I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. C. S. Lewis
L. M. Montgomery quote: "there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The..."
there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own. L. M. Montgomery
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I always think that the best way to know God is to love many..."
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. Vincent Van Gogh
O Lord, give each person his own personal death. / A thing that moves out of the same life he lived, / In which he had love, and intelligence, and trouble. Rainer Maria Rilke
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it. F. Scott Fitzgerald
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of..."
Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know. J. R. R. Tolkien
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.] Nathaniel Hawthorne
I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this angle.' 'Where is Haymitch, anyway? Isn't he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?' says Peeta. 'With all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,' I say. Suzanne Collins
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. Anne Lamott

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