“Mystery remains part of many poems, as well it should, since it remains part of our lives no matter who or where we are.”— Naomi Shihab Nye, Introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, 2000Share
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”— Naomi Shihab NyeShare
“Writers, believers in words, could not give up words when the going got rough.”— Naomi Shihab NyeShare
“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”— EpictetusShare
“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.”— Winston ChurchillShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.”— Friedrich NietzscheShare
