Dzenifer Quotes & Sayings

I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone here and "the house and I resume old conversations". — May Sarton

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads. — H.L. Mencken

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. — Agnes Smedley

In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99) — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God. — Sam Storms

Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow. — James Russell Lowell

The one who speaks dominates; the one who listens controls. — Deepak Mehra

To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness. — Leo Tolstoy

It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare thing that anyone gets to do in any business. — Ralph Strangis

Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

When Holding, clinging to the poop with five others, — Joan Druett