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Life Quotes by Katherine Paterson
- Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.
- Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and…
- Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
- The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to…
- Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very…
- It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as…
- That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or…
- Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
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