Reaching Quotes

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You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals… — Patrick O'Brian
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. — Aristotle
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age… — Tony Kushner
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender — Leonard Cohen
While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect,… — Andy Andrews
The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride… — Megan Whalen Turner
Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger -… — Diana Gabaldon
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys,… — Unknown Author
I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,… — Sylvia Plath
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle… — Henri Nouwen
My misery is reaching epidemic proportions. — Libba Bray
This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent… — Loren Eiseley
What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.… — Frederick Buechner
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born… — Victor Hugo
It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynnâ€™s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing… — Alice Sebold
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. — Albert Schweitzer
His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had… — Terry Goodkind
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road.… — John Piper
Have you guys been playing in toxic waste again?" Fang asked severely, putting his hands on his hips. Nudge giggled. "No." "Been bitten by a… — James Patterson

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