To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
–Christina Baldwin, Life’s Companion (1990)
Category Archives: Quotes
Words to Ponder #7
A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.
–Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Trick of the Eye (1992)
Words to Ponder #6
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
–Booth Tarkington
Words to Ponder #5
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.
–William James
Words to Ponder #4
The essential man is not a doer. The accidental man is a doer. The accidental man is, of course, then in anxiety, tension, stress, anguish, continuously sitting on a volcano. It can erupt any moment, because he lives in a world of uncertainty and believes as if it is certain. This creates tension in his be-ing: he knows deep down that nothing is certain.
–Osho, A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Chapter 3
Words to Ponder #3
I like Americans. They are so ridiculous. They are always risking their lives to save a minute. The pavement under their feet is red-hot.
–Nancy Boyd, Distressing Dialogues (1924)
Words to Ponder #2
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
–Margaret Walker, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World (1989)
Words to Ponder #1
I invented this rule for myself to be applied to every decision I might have to make in the future. I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness, and other things being equal I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. I think it must be a rule something like this that makes jonquils and crocuses come pushing through cold mud.
–Katharine Butler Hathaway, The Little Locksmith (1942)