Blos Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is a universal language. - Robert Langdon — Dan Brown

Kindness must be the highest virtue--don't let me forget that ever. Were I to strive for one thing only 'twould be to be kind to others, as you are, Catherine. — Joan W. Blos

Well, I am going on 83 now but not about to quit. There are too many things I know about where I want to see what happens. You, my dear, being one of them, and this new century starting.
Do what you can to make it good. And remember, as we used to say, that life is like a pudding: it takes both the salt and the sugar to make a really good one. — Joan W. Blos

God is always in the business of healing and restoration, no matter how bad the circumstances might be. — Kay Robertson

So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it. — Joan Blos

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change. — John F. Kennedy

She lived among us for a while
And brought joy where she went.
We thought she was a gift of God
But learned she was but lent. — Joan W. Blos

For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas? — Joan W. Blos

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold? — Alexander Pope

I've come to terms with it, it knows I know. — Rod McKuen

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom

Man blindly works the will of fate.
[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness. — Charlie Kaufman

I've known the woman for a matter of hours and I'm ready to offer her the world. — Kristen Proby

Fail better worse now. — Samuel Beckett

Replies don't matter unless we have actual conversation though. Like, wouldn't you rather be understood than acknowledged — Patrick Stump

Institutionalised love always looks down on her more liberal sister — Guy De Maupassant