“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 116
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom.”
“Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.”
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.”
“For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.”
“There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
“I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!”
“He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible.”
“He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations.”
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet.”
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”