Memoir Quotes
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[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.
I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.
Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.
This body needs me to say yes to it, just as it is right now. No more singing that same old jingle of body-shame and dieter's promised lands.
Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.
You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.
We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism
It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.
Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!
You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.
It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying.
It's very kind of you to take us in, " said the vicar, smiling. "We're so sorry if we've put you out at all." "Not at all!" I said, lying through my teeth.
The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.
Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons.
From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I was an atheist, then a Christian, for which I was called a traitor.
Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much ofwhat I love in that face.
The purpose of my life is not to get what I want. The purpose of my life is to become who I am.
Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.
When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.
It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.
I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?
.. And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.
Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering to help me.
Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.
FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more you get back? It’s love, Alex.’To which Alex asked, ‘What about pain?
If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child
...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.
Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.
The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.
And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more.
I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.
In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. "The trick is moderation, " he said.
The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.
I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.
It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.
I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.
He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.
Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant’s heart, ' I thought.
These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.
