Maryline Damour Quotes & Sayings

A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. — Tristan Tzara

Time is the cruelest force of all. — Cixin Liu

There is not a dream which may not come true, if we have the energy which makes, or chooses, our own fate ... It is only the dreams of those light sleepers who dream faintly that do not come true. — Arthur Symons

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey

I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper. — James Hillman

What time is it?its is by every star
a different time,and each most falsely true ... — E. E. Cummings

I suggested to Jean that she try an exercise that many people find helpful. I call it the "Bug/Brag List." I asked her to take a sheet of paper and on one side write "Things That Bug Me About Serena." Then, on the other side, to write "Things I Appreciate About Serena." I thought she might be surprised at the outcome. — Nancy Samalin

Don't ever love anyone," her mother said, picking the papers up and sliding them into the bureau drawer she'd kept her ring in. "All you'll do is break your own heart. — Matthew Thomas

The Law of Attraction ensures that you start attracting more of what you want into your life instead of what you don't want or instead of what always has been. The highest functioning people never even put their energy on what is if they don't like what is. That's an important difference, because most people who have a lot of "problems" in their life are constantly talking about them and focusing on them, so they just keep attracting more of those circumstances into their lives because that's where their thoughts are. — Wayne Dyer

Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance. — Chiang Kai-shek

A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always. — Ryu Murakami

And thought about the female who, despite being human, he was beginning to see as a friend — Anne Bishop

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it — Jules Renard

One of the great joys in life is having ones hair brushed. — Lise Friedman