“Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.”
Barry Lopez (1945) American writer
“Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.”
Barry Lopez (1945) American writer
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.”
Gene Wolfe book Home Fires
Home Fires (2011), Reflection 1
Fiction
“It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.”
Mike Tomlin (1972) head coach of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers
As quoted in "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, in USA Today (31 January 2009)
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others”
Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) Russian salon-holder
Source: Reported in, "Transform Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Becoming the Person You Want to Be" by Penny Ferguson, p. 167.