Eudora Welty A Worn Path Quotes & Sayings

We are all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life." Tennessee Williams — Anton War

He found a set of encyclopedias - like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky. — Michael Grant

In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. — Virchand Gandhi

I believe that some people are lost souls, with nothing left to save. But some aren't lost, and the problem is you can't tell which is which. All you can do is try to save them all, and hope none of the good ones slip away, and none of the lost ones hurt you."

Jack Prescott, in Painted Black — Debra R. Borys

That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives. — Alexis Wright

Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated. — Michele Borba

It is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it ... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office. — Aristotle.