How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light at you? People were more often - he searched for a simile, found one in his work - torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely d...
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem was that all too many of them HAD gotten a man, married him, had his kid...
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I’ve always liked that phrase “He was visited by grief,” because that’s reall...
As a child, my mother told me not to talk to strangers. I did my best to obey. She hadn’t realized that everyone is a stranger to the part of us that makes us who we truly are. The part of us that prays for the rest in ways we cannot comprehend. In...
Every morning I wake up to have the same hope, that mankind had survived its own greed, its own desire to self-destruct, its own monopoly to destroy the environment regardless of the consequences, its own religious and ideological dogma that kept it ...
At the end of the day, there are very few people around you who truly want to see you peaceful, happy and content. Most of your friends only want to see you happy, peaceful and content, in ratio to their own happiness, peace and contentment. It's lik...
He who takes a light to find a snake should start at his own feet.
If you have no enemies think then that your own mother might have produced one.
A wise man takes his own decisions; the ignorant goes with the crowd.
Only through the eyes of others can we really see our own faults.
You can't claim heaven as your own if you are just going to sit under it.
Sweep in front of your own door before you look after your neighbor's.
Were everyone to sweep in front of his own house, every street would be clean.
If you see your neighbor's beard burning then wet your own.
He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck.
See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.
Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Only he who knows his own weaknesses can endure those of others.
Better to be the lowest in your own land than a Sultan in a foreign land.
Once you have locked your door you are the emperor in your own domain.
