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Else Quotes by Wendell Berry
- If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an…
- There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes…
- Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,…
- At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings…
- and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its…
- Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and…
- The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have…
- You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In…
- We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand…
More Else Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. — Mary Kay Ash
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. — Mackenzie Astin
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin