"I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and……" — Libba Bray
"I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment."
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440 Quotes by Libba Bray
Libba Bray has 440 quotes on this site.
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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams…
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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details,…
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I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.
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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever…
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I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does…
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Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow…
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Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
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"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you…
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life;…
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic…
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We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are…
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In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.…
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More Contentment Quotes
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There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
— Abu Bakr
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world…
— J. G. Ballard
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
— Joseph Addison
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
— Harold Brodkey
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
— Bertolt Brecht
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no…
— Chanakya
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
— Coco Chanel
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it…
— Stewart Alsop
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
— William Ames
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