Books Quote by Miriam Gershow

“Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath…

— Pema Chodrom

“The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse…

— Thomas Hardy

“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never…

— Eudora Welty

“The most frightening part of the confusion, however, was the uncertainty as to whether it was the result of a man trying frantically to…

— Jared Yates Sexton

“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that…

— J. Don Cook

“I had to stem a rapid rush of retrospective thought before I quailed to the dismal present.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“In some ways I think every wrong turn I was to make . . . could be traced to moments of inaction, moments when…

— Leah Hager Cohen

“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my waking existence,…

— Stephen Batchelor

“A shudder skittered down my spine at the thought, and I shoved it away, focusing on my surroundings, on the task ahead. That was…

— Sarah J. Maas

“As we look back on the arc of our lives, we often discover that the most significant, meaningful changes came from unexpected, seemingly unremarkable,…

— Alan Lurie

“The solution had taken a terrific toll. The restless turning of the mind tormented by a puzzle, the preoccupation at meals, the insomnia, the…

— David Kahn

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov