Hannah Quotes

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."

God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

We all carry fault within.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

Surround yourself with people that you know will take care of you. It's not so much a mistake advice - it's just advice advice.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

I'm simultaneously terrified of the thought of existing forever and not existing at all. Wherein is my peace?

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.

Try to focus on the things that you do have instead of obsessing over things you don't

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

Books + friendship = book club

Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.

Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.