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Life Quotes by Elizabeth Strout
- I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to…
- The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch…
- You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went…
- Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or…
- Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that…
- Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For…
- She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed…
- There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had…
- And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle