Quotes of: Often Keyword

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

To the Lighthouse

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.

The Lighthouse Keeper

Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.

Live Like a Fruit Fly: The Secret You Already Know

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

The Love of Being Loving

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

A Lion Among Men

The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

Les Misérables

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

The Lazarus Project

Lothaire is very much alive.” “You swear?” “Often. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Regin. I try not to in front of Bertil.” She petted the bat. “I meant—will Lothaire live?” “He will.

Lothaire

Change often brings unimagined opportunity...If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.

The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Midnight Cactus

She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

The Silence of the Lambs

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.

Solitude: A Return to the Self

Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more so than all the educated and contrived answers of adulthood.

The Sacred White Turkey

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

The Stranger

Often the experiences that challenge us the most are the ones that harbor the greatest gift.

Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use

If people often judge you by the company that you keep...then choose your company wisely my friend, choose wisely!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Often tales of valiant deeds lighten the heart," said Brandegan. "They give hope, for they remind us that not all forces in the world work wickedness.

Strife Of The Mighty: Book One Of The Chronicles Of Vrandalin

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at al...

Studies in Words