Rachitroo Quotes & Sayings

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. — Aldo Leopold

If you don't have a plan of life, you'll never have order. — Josemaria Escriva

Gus the driver is everywhere and yet he appears nowhere, not in portraits or photographs, not even in the stories of men like Barthelme and Carver, who were all about guys with jobs and prospects like Gus's but who insisted on more sorrow, more angst, than Gus remotely manifests. If Gus weeps sometimes for no reason, if he stands despairing in the aisle of a Wal-Mart, it is not apparent in his daily demeanor ... — Michael Cunningham

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Who you are; that is, who you choose to be - your identity, works in your life like an invisible hand. — Bryant McGill

Hope is a fragile thing, Peter continued, as fragile as a flower. Its fragility makes it easy to sneer at, by people who see life as a dark and difficult ordeal, people who get angry when something they can't believe in themselves gives comfort to others. They prefer to crush the flower underfoot, as if to say: See how weak this thing is, see how easily it can be destroyed. But, in truth, hope is one of the strongest things in the universe. Empires fall, civilizations vanish into dust, but hope always comes back, pushing up through the ashes, growing from seeds that are invisible and invincible. — Michel Faber