One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
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One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
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