Quotes of: New-zealand Keyword

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

Miracles for Breakfast: A Startling New Approach to Raising Children

Hospitality is the act of making people feel at home - when you wish they were.

Sweet Beams: Inspiring everyone who lives under a new roof!

On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.

Selected Stories

A ceux qui, absorbés maintenant dans le problème de "la machine à habiter", déclaraient que "l'architecture c'est servir", nous avons répondu: "L'architecture c'est émouvoir". Et nous avons été taxé de "poète", avec dédain

Towards a New Architecture

But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.

Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels For A New Life In Rural France

I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?

Twenties Girl

Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.

Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)

Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.

Poems New and Collected

I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.

A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Page

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

Persuasion

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

The Piper's Son

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

Whether you need to make a call or answer one,don’t put your passions on hold.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons From Solo Moments in New York

A brick could be a columnist for the New York Times, and could even win a Nobel Prize. And why not? Is that any more absurd than both those things happening for Paul Krugman? 

Rick Bet Blank

The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.

Talking to Trees: A Chronicle of One Coach's Journey Into a New Coaching Paradigm.

I traded in my car with no gas in the tank and my new car came with a full tank. So I at least profited there. That makes me appreciate my depreciation more.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.

Trial by Twelve