John Quotes
life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)
I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.
...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t
Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren't living.
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...
Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday, ' he said reflectively.'In your case, that's no exaggeration, ' Halt said, completely straight-faced.
It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.
It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them.
Light is LoveLove is LightLight is LifeLight is TimeTime is MatterMatter is SpaceSpace is TimeTime is Infinite
The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine
No matter how dark your night, my friend, may you always find enough light to take the next step.
In photography and in life, always look for the light -- if you don't see it, bring it...
. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there— there is no time.
![John Quotes: "His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations118/His-Faraday-s-third-great-discovery-is-118971.jpg)
His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.
...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...
...when you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in...
Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...
...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...
...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...
...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...
She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.
Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.
I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, " Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.
After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.
The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.
You make me feel at home in my own skin, and that is one of the greatest gifts anyone has ever given me.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16
No woman will be licensed to preach in the Louisiana Presbytery as long as I'm a member of it!
...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...
...the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...
...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...