Annie > Annie's Quotes

“But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56]”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon

“Deep red hollyhocks pressed against the limestone wall and velvet butterflies flopped lazily from flower to flower. It was Tennyson weather, drowsy, warm, unnaturally still.”
― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country

“That she owed her beauty in some degree to art, discipline and mortification of the flesh, did not seem to matter. The result was vastly satisfactory.”
― SOMERSET W. MAUGHAM

“If you’ve got summat in you that wants to be let out an’ goes on natterin’ at you day an’ night, then you let go of everything else an’ get it out. For that’s your life, lad, an’ don’t let anybody tell you it isn’t. An’ if you don’t get it out, it’ll go bad in you. But if you do, even if you ‘ave nowt for dinner but tea an’ bread an’ drippin’, you’re alive.”
― J B Priestly

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than its hopefulness: we never again face such towering blank walls of misery.”
― J B Priestly

“Then, swollen but contained in slippery satin, the seagreen woman comes to our rescue. She sucks in her lips, assumes an air of intensity, inflates herself and hurls herself precisely at the right moment as if she saw an apple and her voice was the arrow into the note, "Ah!”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“...for not only does the woman of fashion project herself into things, she has chosen to make herself a thing.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“There are no ordinary moments.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“You don’t need to control emotion,” he said. “Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it’s fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“Never struggle with anyone or anything. When you’re pushed, pull; when you’re pulled, push.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“People, animals, and even things are attracted to energy fields”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Etsuko held the watch case in her hands and wondered how they’d stayed together with him not giving up and her not giving in.”
― Lee Min-jin, Pachinko

“The key to optimum breathing, and all the health, endurance, and longevity benefits that come with it, is to practice fewer inhales and exhales in a smaller volume. To breathe, but to breathe less.”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

“With determined perseverance the effort eventually becomes effortless, just as eating or brushing our teeth is effortless. We learn how energy flows. After a time the exercises and ritual of meditation are no longer needed as tools for growth. They become part of us and we use them at all times. In whatever we do there is meditation in action. But we must be careful not to deceive ourselves that we are already there. This is a new evolutionary step for us and we must begin at the beginning.”
― Deborah Rozman, Meditation for children

“Meditation...brings us to union with the true self, the one in ourself and in others. We develop deep devotion to this one when we realise that it is the one who is in all, loves us through all and loves all through us.”
― Deborah Rozman, Meditation for children

“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“An iron will and the grace of God”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“I don’t enjoy your beauty any the less because I know how much it owes to the happy combination of perfect taste and ruthless determination”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.”
― Zig Ziglar

“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”
― Barnett R. Brickner

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.”
― Saint Francis De Sales

“Bloom where you're planted.”
― Bishop of Geneva, Saint Francis de Sales

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength”
― Saint Francis De Sales

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
― Jean Luc Godard

“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
― Jean-Luc Godard