I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.
When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Maybe you should get rid of me,” I whisper onto his lips. “Never,” he says, kissing me once softly. “You’re mine for as long as you breathe.