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... But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power..
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Sorrow is better than fear... Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Father Vincent in
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
...give thanks where you can give thanks. For nothing is better...
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
'Did you ever feel,' he asked, 'as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using...?'
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Helen in
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontė
I ask you to pass through life at my side - to be my second self and best earthly companion.
Mr. Rochester in
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontė
I am not an angel... and I will not be one till I die; I will be myself... you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial from me - for you will not get it.
Jane Eyre in
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontė
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer - the Future so much brighter?
Mr. Rochester in
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontė
Chloe, there are two kinds of people in this world: those that play hopscotch and sing in the shower, and those that lie alone with tears in their eyes.
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II
...sometimes if you don't show your feelings on the outside, it means you're the most scared inside.
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II (Joanie Twersky)
After all, she might have said, this was no extraordinary occurrence. People changed other people's lives every day. There was no call to make such a fuss about it.
Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler
...his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feelings... He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontė
The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something - most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat!
title of book by John Ortberg
(What keeps you comfortable even when it keeps you from doing something spectacular?)
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
There's a lot of ugly things in the world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you.
That's never possible.
Atticus Finch in
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Leave the irreparable past in His hands and step out into the irresistible future with Him.
My Utmost For His Highest, Oswald Chambers
Above all, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart.
The Sacred Romance, Brent Curtis and John Eldredge
When did ignorance become a point of view?
title of Dilbert book by Scott Adams
It's such happiness when good people get together - and they always do.
Emma, Jane Austen
Leaders don't make excuses for inaction. They are first movers and early adopters.
They make things happen.
The Future of Leadership, W. Bennis, G.M. Spreitzer, and T.G. Cummings
You asked me once what I would remember.
This, and much more.
dedication of
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
...I never knew how much I loved [him] until I saw how much he could hurt me. I felt such pain, literally a physical pain, as if someone had torn off both my arms without anesthesia, without sewing me back up...
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
In this portion of the book, the wife and husband are divorcing, and he has been cheating on her. She is speaking here.
...Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope.
How to laugh forever.
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
I am laughing, confused, caught in an endless circle of lies. Or perhaps they are not lies but their own form of loyalty, a devotion beyond anything that can ever be spoken, anything that I will ever understand.
The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
In my character, a kind of wildness and a deep conservatism are wound together like hair in a braid.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
... It was bad, but what in high school is not? At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
We had two kids by the time we'd been married for three years. They were neither planned nor unplanned; they came when they came, and we were glad to have them.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
You can approach the art of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair... Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for the joy, you can do it forever.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Not until I was alone that night could I begin to allow the full extent of my own feelings to surface . I felt such fear, such bottomless anxiety at the thought of losing my husband, my best friend, my dearest love and inspiration that it threatened to paralyze me. ... To lose this man would be a catastrophe on every level imaginable.
He simply could not die.
Queen Noor of Jordan, when she found out King Hussein had cancer
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, page 403
... Maybe she did love him, shed thought. But there were so many boys to love. She wasnt ready to love just one.
Smart Women, Judy Blume
Money is power and money is living well and living well is the best revenge.
Smart Women, Judy Blume
... An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie...
The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
It's up to a leader to instill confidence, to believe in his judgment and in his people even when they no longer believe in themselves.... sometimes the leader has to be optimistic simply because if he isn't nobody else will be. And you've got to at least try to fight back, no matter how daunting the odds.
Leadership, Rudolph Giuliani (page 298)
Words are enormously important to me. I love to read and I love language, the sheer pleasure of words in the right order. Choosing one word over another is an important act.
Leadership, Rudolph Giuliani (page 195)
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