Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour--landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! Tumbling head over h...
Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.
Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.
You don’t need to provide answers to question like “why were you born?”. Be committed to what excites you and what excites you will provide the answers!
Nobody was born a master; amateurs become experts because they did not give up on learning. You are going as far as you can if you’ll learn and apply!
Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. "Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.
God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!
Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
Acting is not as difficult as you may think. People are born natural actors and play many parts on the stage of life. Everyone is constantly in front of an audience — or performing monologues when alone.
People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.
Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.
the living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.
Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents', Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and they were what they were because the world needed them to be that way.
It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.
I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.
A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.
