💬 Quotes

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

"It is not what we think or feel or know that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do."

"I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to belong to myself."

"Memory is a heavy thing. It is a stone in the pocket, a weight in the chest, a ghost in the halls."

"Ideas are so much wilder than people. They travel further. They have longer lives."

"But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me."

"I will not be like a bird that beats its wings against the bars of a cage. I will make a nest of them."

"When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist. They called me nymph, assuming I would be like the others: soft and floral, and given to obedience."

"You must understand that I am not a goddess, nor a witch, nor a monster. I am a woman who has learned to be her own master."

"It is a common saying that women are the weaker vessel. But I have found that they are often the most resilient, enduring pains that would break a god in two."

"I had been a child of the sun, and the sun had taught me nothing. I had been a child of the sea, and the sea had taught me everything."

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."

"I don't think it would be exactly lazy to just want to be pure in your outlook and not do a lot of dirty work."

"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."

"You can't live in this world with your ego all over everything. You have to be careful."

"The Jesus Prayer has one aim and one aim only: to endow the person who says it continually with the Christ-consciousness."

"I'll tell you a terrible secret—are you listening? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady."

"The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread the Pattern plays with."

"It is not a beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time."