“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 87 of 303
“All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.”
“Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.”
“Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.”
“Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.”
“One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.”
“There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.”
“Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha”
“It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.”
“All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.”
“Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we're allowing to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility.”
“Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.”
“Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.”
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It.”
“The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.”
“It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself.”
“I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.”
“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”
“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”
“Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.”