“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
Bird by Bird
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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954Related quotes
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 7
“What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.”
Source: Abandon
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“Don’t look for other people to validate your dreams. If it feels right, just go for it.”
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Part 4, Chapter 13 (p. 301)
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Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
“And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
That star of life's tremulous ocean.”
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, II
Context: p>If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming
Can touch life's height to a finer fire:
Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming
Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason,
One lightning over the chasm runs —
That to turn from love is the world's one treason
That darkens all the suns.</p
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 111