287 Accident Quotes & Sayings

I do not want any inscription on my tombstone. A blank stone, because what I would like to leave behind me is the sentiment of a great mystery. — Philippe Auclair

Character must be kept bright as well as clean. — Lord Chesterfield

A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger. pg. 287 — Elise Broach

Perhaps it's the word radical that needs rethinking. But what could we angle ourselves toward instead, or in addition? Openness? Is that good enough, strong enough? You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows. And the thing is, even you don't always know. — Maggie Nelson

Her ideas were expressions of her inability to accept her own personal tragedy and her quest for some certainty on which she could rest a troubled spirit. Her her lack of education was a real handicap, because she had no historical or philosophical perspective from which to analyze her own experience of grief and loss. Because we lived in a cultural wasteland of suburbia, there were no schools or evening classes she might have attended which could offer an intellectually disciplined approach to her quest. Nor were there any churches which might have offered comfort through the beauty of their liturgy. — Jill Ker Conway

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat. — Douglas Adams

Always listen to yourself. Believe in you and believe in what you do. And even when other people say you can't handle that ... — Bill Kaulitz

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. — Philip Sidney

I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it was kind of shocking, but then it was fun. — Camilla Belle

You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side. — Ernest Newman