Invitations Quotes

“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

“Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to his aunt's saying: If everyone is invited, no one is invited—in the sense of being truly held by the group. By closing the door, you create the room.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“... once evil is invited in, tremendous effort is required to show it to the door and kick its cloven hoof off the threshold.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“As I get older, I realize just because I'm invited doesn't mean I have to accept.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough