C. Elizabeth Quotes
The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.
Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.
I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read
Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.
The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.
God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.
Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own, " said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it.
As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?
Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.
Was it worth it? My death, I mean. Did I die for something worthwhile?
Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.
The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.
I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.
Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you’re in trouble, just remember you’re your own best friend.
People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced - but moving...
People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere
A dream you once were, A dream of all my realities, A dream I can no long strive forIn the wake of my manly betayals
Often, we speak too hastily. We claim ideals and embrace images and dreams of fantasy. We make promises without thinking about the consequences.
. . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.
We have to take flight. It's not given to us, served up on a pretty, parsley-bordered platter. We have to take wing. Was I brave enough to do that? Or would I be content to remain earthbound?
Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.
Did you just seriously quote Grease? I think I'm gonna have to revoke your man card.
Nate shook his head with a crooked grin. "You haven't gone Back to the Future, McFly.
One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.
It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men
Of course women are flighty, I thought. We have more predators than men.
But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!
I wouldn’t change a thingBecause all those things led me tothis placeAnd to you
If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.
Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.
Religion is the world's label for following God. But, it is a one-on-one, daily and personal relationship that God seeks from all of us.
Open up allowing the temporal and eternal self to dance deeper into the conversation.
Many can capture your eyes but just a chosen few can truly captivate your heart and soul." -Author/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo
Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.
Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.
A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.
It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Begin again as often as you need to in order to stay on track spiritually...
... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.
In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.
I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.
She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.