Lives of others Quote by Shey Stahl

“there are moments when we understand that the earth and the sky and the presences that may lie behind them are always with us.”

— James Lee Burke

“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all…

— Walt Whitman

“When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish…

— Cassandra Clare

“They experienced the world, I supposed, as I experienced going to the movies: that flash of amazement petitioned, in part, from feeling small in…

— Durga Chew-Bose

“Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don’t…

— Chinua Achebe

“There are so many things, he said quietly, that we can't see but that we believe in, so many places that seem to possess…

— Anne Michaels

“He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always…

— Jack London

“We were tiny creatures, really; tiny and afraid, trying to hold our place on the little platform that was our earth. So while the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It made our presence in the world meaningful; we still served a purpose.”

— Massimo Marino

“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.”

— Arthur Golden

“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in the world,…

— Leo Tolstoy