Exercitationes Quotes & Sayings

So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. — John Updike

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away. — Kristin Cashore

Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy. — Phil McGraw

It was a strange trek - the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused. — David Brin