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Before Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
- Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the…
- Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
- Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy…
- Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood