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- I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.
- The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence…
- My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted…
- He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
- I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but…
- The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look…
- Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really…
- But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.
- …the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I…
- We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing…
- I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are…
- So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love'…
- The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that…
- You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster