Category: writer
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
Voltaire
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
Marianne Williamson
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My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.
Simon Sinek
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Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
Audre Lorde
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose Bierce
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Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.
Joyce Meyer