Quotes by Authors - Page 227

You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle created by your lady around herself and you, like the natural emanations of stars, other lives circle yours, seeds still winged and wind-borne, looking for sympathetic soil. You feel the juices and solids of your body in attempted rearrangement, or, more disturbing, making an effort to create a stillness that approximates death, beyond which the body does become soil, receptive to all wind-borne seeds. In a not especially prolonged stillness, as though no chances could be taken that you might decide to become perpetual motion, words fall out of the air, a random fall from which you might be tempted to make selection, and as you do not move, cannot, a string of words falls onto you, and from you, onto the paper: winter rye greening up, smoothing the old brown earth with a fine new plane: Carpenter Rye, neighbor.
Coleman Dowell
I cried because sometimes no matter what you try to hide behind— letters or texts or emails or a busy schedule— life still finds a way to barrel through all the distractions. And life still hurts. Even though it's beautiful.
Hannah Brencher
Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.
Tim O'Brien
If you work you will never go hungry.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you are going to start, don't quit. But if you are going to quit, don't even start!
Hannah Sulfridge
Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
David Byrne
As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.
Dalai Lama XIV
I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.
David Byrne
The miracle lies in the newness of a morning.
Lailah Gifty Akita
For the wine of Clochemerle is at once exquisite and treacherous; it charms first the nose, then the palate, finally the entire man. Mark well that if it makes a man drunk it does not do so malignantly. It produces an enchanting light-heartedness, an intellectual sparkle which liberates the drinker from the constraints and conventions which bind him in his daily life.
Gabriel Chevallier
Everyday, you leave a footprint!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.
Marty Rubin
I don't go after him. He's a funny sort of boy. I've known that from the start. Not just because he seems angry and contemptuous or the way he walks like a tough guy. Because of his smile - it's a child's smile.
Delphine de Vigan
Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.
Gaelen Foley
To change the world, a country, an organization, a community, a relationship, begin with the smallest seed of change: begin with yourself. That is what this book is all about.
Gloria Burgess
Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that you are not indifferent to the difference between perfect and imperfect, demonstrate to us that achievement - excellence, arete, virtu - has not remained a foreign word to you, admit that you have motives for new endeavours! Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it deserves, do not misuse it as a pretext to drift further in your customary state of self-neglect, distrust the philistine in yourself who thinks you are just fine as you are! Hear the voice from the stone, do not resist the call to get in shape! Seize the chance to train with a god!
Peter Sloterdijk
Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.
Doug Cooper
That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest.It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people we can start the change from the softer things such as the way we breathe, and the way we feel about or toward other people and other living beings. These soft parts shape Our behaviors and our choices, both on a personal and a global scale. In this respect, they are fundamental, more so than any material changes.
Ilchi Lee
We cannot change outcomes, but we can change causes
Seth Czerepak
If you do what you’ve always done, you get what you’ve always gotten. If you want something different, then make something different.
H.M. Ward
Don’t waste your entire life always waiting for the end of the day, for the weekend, for summer, for things to change, for something better. Enjoy as much of the present as you can. Now is happening. Now is good. Now belongs to you.
Emm Roy
We are all broken, but none of us are beyond fixing".
Bella Forrest
When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.
Ilchi Lee
To change, you need to accept your past and deny to be challenged and overcome by your future.
Auliq-Ice
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.
Robin S. Sharma
Things fucking change, dude! Life changes. Priorities change. Pre-fucking-conceived notions change. You have to adjust and change with them or your ass gets left behind.
K.Bromberg
Change is possible. You must want it enough for the change to take place.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The boy I once was is a stranger to me, and sometimes I wonder if terrible experiences are enough to change a person - I mean fundamentally to change a person's nature - or if they merely subdue it, and it endures there beneath, and will reassert itself in time. I wonder if I will be recognized by my family. If those I love will still know me.
Peter Hobbs
New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.
Auliq-Ice
Repentance is a softening of ones heart and a realigning of ones affections.
Gary Rohrmayer
Change is inevitable! Repentance is the Christian constant!
Gary Rohrmayer
Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.
Brian D'Ambrosio
See that path in front of you? That path has been laid before you, the one that you’re supposed to take, the one you’re told to take through life…just like everyone else. If you follow that path, you’ll be following all the rules, you’ll always know that you did what everyone wanted you to do and you’ll make it through…See that path in front of you? I dare you to step off and make your own.
Travis Culliton
You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.
Jen Calonita
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A.C. Benson
Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.
Carlos Wallace
Positivity is good, but positivity that is rooted in God is power
Ngina Otiende
The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.
C.S. Lewis
Sometimes miracles happen in this world simply because good people take action and decide to do something, and never give up.
Eileen Anglin
I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.
Tobias Wolff
Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...
Barbara Kingsolver
Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.
Sarah Hepola
A person whom is unhappy with life realizes that their construction of a self-image is incompatible with their earthly reality. An unhappy person must alter their internal or external world; otherwise, their sadness, sorrow, grief, and misery will remain unabated. Misery and desperation can lead to change, but only if a person is willing to learn, explore, and try.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Real change isn't achieved as the result of white knuckling and hoping for the best. It requires changing your heart.
Eddie Capparucci
The universe rewards action.
Sheridan Jobbins
If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you
Kyra Davis
All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thirty years.
Avi Steinberg
In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there
Jane Austen
Massive changes may have occurred in libraries in recent years, with new digital resources and services supplementing the old traditional resources and services, the dog-eared card catalogues ripped up and destroyed, workstations suddenly everywhere, but one essential aspect of “libraryness” has not changed: libraries remain places dedicated to storage. Books continue to be published in greater and greater numbers – so great in fact that there are no accurate figures as to exactly how many are published: some say one every thirty seconds, others four thousand per day, others a million per year – and somehow, whether through the off-site storage of the physical books themselves, or microfilm copying, or digital scanning, we remain obliged to keep up with or afloat in this vast deluge of paper. Even the new, high-tech rebranded libraries opened to great fanfare in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the 1990s could not get away from this essential fact of paper hoarding: they were called “Idea Stores.” - p.56
Ian Sansom
Believe it or not working in libraries is very similar to working on an ambulance or a fire truck. You take care of a lot of homeless people, you sometimes have to clean up things that require latex gloves, you always wear comfortable shoes, and you put out a lot of “fires”!
Lori Reed
Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi. Instead of writing her name, Naomi had a thin paper receipt with the due date printed on it. She could never possess this book the way those other people had. It was one of those uselessly nostalgic and sentimental thoughts that serve only our own romantic ideals, but I couldn't help believing it was true nonetheless. I took a pencil out from behind the register and handed it to her.
Dinaw Mengestu
An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62
Jennifer Lee Carrell
For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.
Augusta Scattergood
I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.
Augusta Scattergood
It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old building shabby chic was being kind. It didn’t have automated stacks or self-service machines like the Management and Sciences library the other side of campus and the carpets and bookcases looked like they were probably the Victorian originals. But on days like this one, where the springtime sunshine streamed in through the high windows and set the dust motes dancing, Harriet sincerely felt that those BSc lot could stuff their vending machines and state of the art study pods. The Old Library was clearly suited for those who had poetry in their souls, rather than numbers in their heads.
Erin Lawless
I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work
Larry Brown
She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes.
Augusta Scattergood
Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.
Stephen Greenblatt