Confronting Oneself Spiritually Quotes & Sayings

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write. — John D. MacDonald

One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn't the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. — J.W. Lord

Sometimes I would see myself as a book with bad binding. You know, like one more reader, one more face-down on the bed and I was going to spill everything, lose control — Jerry Pinto

The dead man reviving in his heart died again and only weighed his heart down painfully. — Leo Tolstoy

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at. — Johnny Cash

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail. — Joseph Campbell

Home is where your rump rests. — Rachel Brosnahan

It was easy to make a difference to other people's lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life. — Alexander McCall Smith

The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world. — Dada Bhagwan

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither. — William Trevor

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire ... but I had gone to a women's college. — Madeleine Albright

The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected. — Chester W. Nimitz