Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“ahead. But at his core he believed the world a lovely place. And his”

— Louise Penny

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.”

— Mike Schmoker

“Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than…

— Paul Bowles

“We only know Him in so far as we are known by Him, and our contemplation of Him is a participation in His contemplation…

— Thomas Merton

“He seemed to be drawing inward toward some point at which he would be reduced to the fundamental essence of himself.”

— William Gay

“His self-respect was at its lowest ebb.”

— C.S. Forester

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done…

— Christopher Paolini

“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The…

— Lois Lowry

“He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly,…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Many things receded into the distance behind him, seemed ridiculous or fantastical, or both. Were, at their core, unimportant.”

— Jeff VanderMeer