S.L. Wallace Quotes

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Money is a kind of poetry.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.

This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.

To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.