Retiring Wishes Quotes & Sayings

Putting my hand in someone else's has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don't have courage, I dream. — Clarice Lispector

Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead? — Nicola Yoon

And you who seek to know me,
know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not,
unless you know the Mystery:
For if that which you seek,
you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. — Doreen Valiente

I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts. — Jacques Derrida

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach. — David Brainerd

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend. — Mahatma Gandhi