Category: writer
-
We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
-
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
Simon Sinek
-
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein
-
Promise a lot and give even more.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
-
It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
-
The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis
-
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray Bradbury
-
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen King
-
Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.
Aeschylus
-
When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
Brene Brown