Quotes of: Holy-book Keyword

But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

The Book of Ivy

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

The Book of Ivy

Life is one sick joke after another, I'm discovering. Because it hardly seems fair that it should hurt so much to finally get exactly what I've been wishing for.

The Book of Ivy

You are exactly who you need to be in this moment. Don't begrudge that or justify it.

The Big Book of YOU: Spiritual Principles for Creating Your Life and Accepting What Is

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

The Book of the City of Ladies

It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.

The Book of My Lives

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

The Book of the City of Ladies

Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

The Book of Michael

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

The Books of Magic

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.

A Book for All and None

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

The Book of Promethea

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams. And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

The Book of Promethea

Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?

The Book of Questions

Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"?

The Book of Questions

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?

The Book of Questions

Si todos los rios son dulces de donde saca sal el mar? If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get its salt?

The Book of Questions

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

The Book of Snobs