On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

When a human being is brought up with the concern of simply taking care of his body and the external aspect of his life, he is acting as though he is only biomass

Loyalty is a very heavy weight, not everyone is able to carry it.Forward March Life Quotes

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.

Flow is letting nothing obstruct the breath. Practice flow through a complete exhale in every way in your being.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.