Way Quotes (page 412)

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• girlfriend
• book
• school

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2) William Shakespeare

• art
• end
• purpose

Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can. Edward Abbey

• writing
• transform
• participating

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation. Toni Cade Bambara

• saying
• personal
• fear

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. Ursula K. Le Guin

• writing
• without
• ways

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. Jules Renard

• horse
• king
• green

If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and... J. R. R. Tolkien

• life death
• life
• door

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. T. S. Eliot

• life
• tree
• day life

Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way. From a trees summit John Keats

• life
• lies
• less

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. Bob Dylan

• excuses
• excuse
• ways

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. Jim Rohn

• fall
• you me
• coming

How come the only way to know how high you get me is to see how far I fall John Mayer

• personal
• pride
• kindness

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any... Graham Greene

• people
• she
• intelligent

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. Orson Scott Card

• running
• humanity
• lost

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. Rollo May

• faith
• god
• attention

What a strange fellowship this is, the God seekers in every land, lifting their voices in the most disparate ways imaginable to the God of all life. How does it sound from above? Like bedlam, or do the strains blend in strange ethereal harmony? Does one faith carry the lead or do the parts share in counterpoint and antiphony where not in full throated chorus? We cannot know. All we can do is to listen carefully and with full attention to each voice in turn as it addresses the divine. Huston Smith