Snippets By Sarah Quotes & Sayings

Taking an interest in one's own soul requires a certain amount of space for reflection and appreciation. — Thomas Moore

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies. — Richard Whately

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. — Blaise Pascal

I barely registered moving into the long gallery, one hand absentmindedly wrapping around my throat as I looked up at the paintings.

So many, so different, yet all arranged to flow together seamlessly... Such different views and snippets and angles of the world. Pastorals, portraits, still lifes . . . each a story and an experience, each a voice shouting or whispering or singing about what that moment, that feeling, had been like, each a cry into the void of time that they had been here, had existed. Some had been painted through eyes like mine, artists who saw in colors and shapes I understood. Some showcased colors I had not considered; these had a bend to the world that told me a different set of eyes had painted them. A portal into the mind of a creature so unlike me, and yet . . . and yet I looked at its work and understood, and felt, and cared. — Sarah J. Maas

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. — Samuel Johnson

I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished. — Isak Dinesen

There is hope in our wanting to be something better, even if we never manage it. Maybe that is what I can hold to. The wanting. — Eowyn Ivey

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist of our self-sufficiency, and persuaded of our universal impeccability, do not understand this. — Maxim Gorky

Once you make the decision that you will not fail, the heart and the body will follow. — Kara Goucher