Michael Collins Book Carrying The Fire Quotes & Sayings

Living is a verb, not a noun. Joy is found in living our life not just having a life. — Melissa Heisler

Come to the woods, for here is rest. — John Muir

When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people? — Aaron Sorkin

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. — Dorothy Parker

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove. — Gordon Lightfoot

I know I'm not supposed to argue with you when you talk about dying. And yes, you could die, Neil. But I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow. Either we need to live every single day together like it's our last, or we need to be comfortable with the fact that some times are just sucky times. — Abigail Barnette

Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a works that was anything but. Once you realize this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away. — Sarah Dessen

Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body. — Clement Of Alexandria

Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world; to see the stir
Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd. — William Cowper

I lie there in the magic grove, being hummed at by trees with ancient memories, lulled by their stately breath, held in the embrace of their roots. — Nayomi Munaweera

To the guy who finishes my sentences and gets my jokes. Even the lame ones. — Kim Harrison

At the same time, if we were feeling a knot of guilt about our decision re: dying, it might have been because we regretted our failure to achieve a certain kind of wisdom born from certain kinds of life experiences...Our skittishness when it came to any crisis, the preference we had for deflecting important conversations with jokes, rather than facing them head-on. It was fine, we agreed, not to want to grow old. Fine, too, to take steps to ensure we didn't grow old. But we'd also avoided growing up. We'd lived our lives like perpetual children, hiding in corners, never knowing what to say, never knowing what to do. If our plan to die was problematic, it was problematic in that it eliminated the possibility of our ever becoming serious, capable women. — Judith Claire Mitchell