Altenhofen Inn Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to know just what people are doing and feeling to be of assistance to them. Your own life seems to you like a very small lighted room, with great darkness all around it, and you can't see out into the darkness and know what is happening there. But light and warmth from your room can go out into the darkness if you don't have the windows selfishly curtained, keep a brave fire burning, and light all the happy candles you can. — Elizabeth Goudge

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you. — Miguel De Cervantes

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Desire Of Obsession12 is also on Kindle — Janelle R. Moore

I would rather lose money than trust — Robert Bosch

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry. — Mahatma Gandhi

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful. — Ted Danson

There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See. — Nancy Pearl

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone. — Buzz Aldrin

Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again. — Nicholas Carr

I don't like ringing the bell at the door. Its' tingaling just sounds beautiful. It makes one equal innocent sound, and it doesn't matter who is ringing. But knocking is distinctive. Human beats something physically - you can hear the reflected feeling. Of course, the hand always gets slightly painful. — Haruki Murakami

And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom. — Charles Dickens