Brian Andreas Quotes

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.

In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.

Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.

In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.

Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.

I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.

Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.

One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly what the world needed everywhere I went.

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.

I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.

I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.

We sat in the car & the night droppeddown until the only sounds werethe crickets &the dance of our voices& for a momentthe world becamesmall enough toroll back & forth between us.

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with loveAnd there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.