“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 115
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“How slowly I have made my way in life! How much is still to be done!”
“She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.”
“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”
“The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.”
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.”
“It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.”
“Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows.”
“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
“The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.”
“Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.”
“Any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”