Eenzame Bejaarde Quotes & Sayings

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention ... it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars-compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. — David Foster Wallace

If something's worth having, it's worth working for. — Isabelle Rae

I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose. — Demi Lovato

he was more than a little daunted by her brain power. He thought she could probably take over the world. Yet — Veronica Henry

Alois did not know (or care that much) whether men and women had souls, but he was in no doubt about dogs. They did, and you had to be loyal to the soul of a dog. — Norman Mailer

You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be. — Tullian Tchividjian

A mother comforts, a mother cleans. A mother gives when any reasonable person would deny. Life might affix any number of labels to Vera- Russian, pensioner, widow, daughter- but when she looked to her washed-out reflection in the bathroom mirror, she saw only Lydia's mother. — Anthony Marra

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. — Dore Ashton