Shufang Zhang Quotes & Sayings

War often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. — Sophie Swetchine

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. — Molly Corbett Broad

If you can't get your head around facts then stick with all the possibilities fiction gives. — Stephen Richards

It was finally happening for me. Life was happening. And I loved it. Every hard, trying, demanding second of it. — Belle Aurora

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar. — Yasunari Kawabata

I hang my head over these knuckles, over these pale, veined wrists which I hardly recognize as mine, finding myself overcome by a new enemy, one I never expected: the chill of old age. — Uvi Poznansky

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries. — Etty Hillesum

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone. — Rick Riordan

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. — Zola Budd

By walking, I found out where I was going. — Irving Layton

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings. — Pema Chodron