A. O. Scott Quotes

The mind is limitless, in its creations.

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.

He had no idea how to deal with the staggering amount of grief he felt, so he looked to the sun and blinded himself with its light.

The searing light of morningAsks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

Paradise is no whim.It takes time and trust, You see.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life.

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something…

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men.

The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us.

Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.

Loving her was heaven that turned to hell when she died.

And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude/

Please don't tell me not to be sad. I know you don't like to see me hurting, but my sadness is mine to feel, not yours to heal. Let me be sad. It will pass in its own time. It always does.

And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.

But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading.

I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.

It really matters when the work we are doing doesn't.

Theory of Evolution (Summary)First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management.

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

The choices in the now are the choices of all your tomorrows combined

Everything we do means something.

The uncertainty of life got me thinking about the importance of constants in our lives.

Soothing the exhaustionIn my soul, So I can fall back skyward, Safe in your arms, And survive to dream again.

Let us have no guiltLeft to wasteFor dreaming still.

It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall them, the words could never be right.

Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

Maybe you're holding on too tight, and the magic comes in letting go.

Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away.

If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.

when you hate others, you hate yourself.when you hate yourself, you hate others.when you love others, you love yourself.when you love yourself, you love others.there is no separation.

Being right is massively overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of being compassionate and kind.

Approaching this day with optimism and fire, with patience and determination, with compassion and love.

When you give to others, you give to yourself.

The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you'll become.

There's just no time for hatred. It's lazy and destructive. We can all do better. Our world needs us to.I love you.