Margaret Joyce > Margaret's Quotes

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
― Pearl S. Buck, To My Daughters, With Love

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
― Miranda July

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
― W.H. Auden

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Wesley Powell

“Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.”
― Philip Lopate

“Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one’s clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way

“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.”
― L.R.Knost

“The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.”
― Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

“Your future is in God's hands, but He does not promise you marriage. Finding a spouse is a free will process, in which two people decide to sacrifice themselves for each other's benefit. Marriage is not some predetermined process that happens mysteriously. You will become very frustrated if you think that God mystically pairs people up. He does not unite people by overriding their minds and wills. God brings people together and encourages them to love one another but lets them decide their relational future.”
― Rob Eagar

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

“God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”
― Robert Littell