“I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.”
― Dream More
― Dream More
“Love is the religion that bereaves the bereft.”
― When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
― When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
“What we have to do now, then, Sir, is to lay your request before the daughters of educated men and to ask them to help you to prevent war, not by advising their brothers how they shall protect culture and intellectual liberty, but simply by reading and writing their own tongue in such a way as to protect those rather abstract goddesses themselves.”
― Three Guineas
― Three Guineas
“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
― Three Guineas
― Three Guineas
“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
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