It Is In Things. Quotes

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.

But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

Never underestimate yourself

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

Marketing is about spreading the love.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.