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Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
“Why is patience so important?"
"Because it makes us pay attention.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.”
Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.”
Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Man of My Dreams
“Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.”
Drew Karpyshyn book Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Source: Path of Destruction
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 224
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
“These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.”
Annie Dillard book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
John McWhorter (1965) American linguist and political commentator
Source: Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
“What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: My Point... And I Do Have One
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.”
Alyson Nöel (1965) writer
Variant: Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.
Source: Night Star
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Variant: A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie.
Source: Trattato di semiotica generale (1975); [A Theory of Semiotics] (1976)
“An infinite remoteness underlies us all.”
Richard Ford book Let Me Be Frank with You
Let Me Be Frank with You
“Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems
Silver RavenWolf (1956) American New Age, Magic and Witchcraft author and lecturer
Source: A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft
“LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
“I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: A Wallflower Christmas
“No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer book The Cost of Discipleship
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.”
Sarah Dunant (1950) English writer, broadcaster and critic
Source: Blood & Beauty: The Borgias
“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
“I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”
Martha Stout (1953) American psychologist
Source: The Sociopath Next Door
“Out of used furniture she made a tree.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: The Complete Poems
“Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage.”
Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell
Source: The Indigo Spell
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
Source: The Sense of an Ending
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
"Thinking for Oneself" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter8.html <br class="br">Essays
“So that's us: processed corn, walking.”
Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“You remind us that we’re selfish bastards. You’re not one of us, that way.”
E. Lockhart book We Were Liars
Source: We Were Liars
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Lothaire
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Context: 11. The Master answered and said "Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.12. "The current of the river swept silently over them all — young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going it's own way, knowing only its own crystal self.13. "Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.14. "But one creature said at last, 'I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.'15. "The other creatures laughed and said, 'Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed against the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!'16. "But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.17. "Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.18. "And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried 'See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah come to save us all!'19. "And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure."20. "But they cried the more, 'Savior!' all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Savior."