“O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified. We have no instincts like those of migratory birds.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To say what happened, the mere facts, the disposition of events in time, would come to seem like a kind of treachery.… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Growing up in the social media world, it's tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall… — McKayla Maroney Copy Share Image
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance,… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
This dress makes me look fat," I told Jasmine as we stood near the back of the crowd and watched the last… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise -… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
In life, when you are faced with an unfortunate circumstance, there’s no book, there’s no guide, there’s no right answer on how… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“So you fell out of the sky, too?" the Little Prince asked the pilot who tells the story, and I thought yes,… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
I think the Americans are dying to leave Iraq. I was against the war but longed for the fall of Saddam; the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
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![“[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose…” quote by Brandon Sanderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/390/brandon-sanderson-112_blessed_omin-all-things-must-progress-and-progre_3163080.jpg)
