Benfey The Great Quotes & Sayings

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. — Joanna R. Macy

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being,
and the expansion of a single being, even to God — Honore De Balzac

All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can. — Eddie Izzard

Just as the light changes everything, love changes everything. Your face changes. Your body changes. You don't want to wear any clothes. You just want to be with him, taste him, feel him, be absorbed by him. — Chloe Thurlow

Longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness — Elizabeth Gilbert

Telling the truth. I finally have that with my boyfriend, and that makes me vulnerable constantly. Without vulnerability, you're not really alive. Your vulnerability is your power. Sitting in your house alone, breathing through it. Calling a friend when you need to cry. Being really honest in your therapist's office. Whatever it is. Bringing it into a role, for me. It is your power. — Daphne Zuniga

The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true. — Demosthenes

You'll be back like before. I will fight the fight and win the war for your love, for your praise, and I'll love you till my dying days. When you're gone I'll go mad, so don't throw away this thing we had. Cuz when push comes to shove, I will kill you friends and family to remind you of my love.
- King George — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange. — Wendy Mass

Books are the ammunition of life. — Theodore Roosevelt

And the greatest adventure I can imagine living would be to get to know every piece of you that's left to discover. — Rachel Higginson

If you cannot reach a state of utter oneness with each other, how do you expect to solve anything? Separate the world will crumble; together the world will thrive. — Jennifer Ott

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie. — Scott Sigler

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf? — Jose Saramago