Quotes of: Memoir Keyword

My greatest fear is having to face God and explain to Him why I wasn't able to fulfill my purpose.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

You'll have less heartaches and disappointments if you stop seeking from others the things ONLY God and you can give yourself!

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.

Drunk Mom: A Memoir

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Dharma Punx: A Memoir

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

Devotion: A Memoir

…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.

Experience: A Memoir

I was a let-er-goer and she was a hanger-on-er, but that doesn't mean I don't lean into her territory every once in a while.

The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

About this time, whether he felt there wasn't sufficient drama in his life or that he was determined not to be outdone by Miss McCabe, he decided that he was dying.

All Will Be Well: A Memoir

The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first...

Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Memoirs of a Geisha

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

Memoirs of Hadrian

... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

Memoirs of My Life