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Life Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be…
- You have to live with your mind your whole life.
- It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway.…
- Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate…
- Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can…
- Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that…
- I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or…
- She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there…
- People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do,…
- That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the…
- I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think…
- ...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a…
- There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient
- I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will…
- Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had…
- That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly…
- I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an…
- The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that…
- That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those…
- I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little…
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