Quotes of: Makes-us-stronger Keyword

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

MaddAddam

The physical world exists, but that’s only the paint and canvas; that’s only the instrument we use to make music; that’s only the stage where the play is performed.

Mikawadizi Storms

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.

Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

The fact that we’re not lovers makes us more like bees and flowers than rabbits.

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Because I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.

Love Letters to the Dead

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

Les Misérables

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

My Antonia

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

On the Shortness of Life

People get jealous and use whatever information they have to make you feel bad and themselves feel better.

Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man

There might be bits and pieces of us that I don't like or that drive me up the wall, but at the end of the say, it's who we are. I'm going to make the best of what we have.

Shooting Stars

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

The Singing Tree

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Thousandth Night and Minla's Flowers

Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine.

Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

The Pale Horseman

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Prime of Life

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.

In The Presence of The Sun: Stories and Poems

Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.

The Proving Trail

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

The Phantom Tollbooth

You somehow make it outta here and track me down, you best come with a furious rage--because I got no use for your sympathy.

The Reapers are the Angels