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From a scrap of a magazine article I'd saved
“‘Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?’ It’s a question for the characters on that stage, and it’s also a question for the audience. It leaves you reckoning with: Wait, who does tell my...
A quotation I put in my diary in 2002
“The truth knocks on the door. You say, ‘Go away. I’m looking for the truth.’ And so it goes away.” (Robert Pirsig –Quoted in The Art of Pilgrimage (37)).
Quotation Shared in The Soloist by Steve Lopez
Relationship is primary…it is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally [can] change [a person’s] chemistry by being [a] friend. Dr. Mark ...
Quotation from Emerson
ON SUCCESS To laugh often & much. To win the respect of intelligent people & the affection of children. To earn the appreciation of honest critics & endure the betrayal of false frien...
Where strength comes from, afterwards
Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood– Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, or glory in the flower; We will grieve not, r...
From a flip calendar
To love and be loved is like feeling both sides of the sun. David Vincent Found this on a diary entry in 2000, mentioned it was my favorite quotation of the past year on a flip calendar .
What has to be mastered
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the ...
From the Talmud
Friends are the medicine of life.
From The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
You don’t have to understand electricity to use it.
From an old black and white film
Father-in-law to widow: It’s been five years. When will you stop living your husband’s life and begin living yours? From: Together Again
Book Description
a list of quotations I want to remember and access
