Non Essentials Breathing Quotes & Sayings

The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls. — Harold S. Kushner

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function. — Alberto Manguel

Some things are worth the splurge. — Kiernan Shipka

I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity. — Veronica Roth

Sorry, Roy, I just don't trust you enough to believe that you lied. — Rich Burlew

I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author. — Laura Mullen

It's ironic, my need to be strong for a man who is my only weakness. — L.J. Shen

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before. — George Saunders

The entire world may not change. The entire world cannot change. The entire world even will not change. But your tiny world you can and will change forever at this very moment with the help of your confidence-heart. Yours will be the unparalleled victory. — Sri Chinmoy