Anchorite Quotes

#1. Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. If a man exists who is immune to force, even if he's the most blameless anchorite living on top of a column in the middle of the desert, he is beyond government, beyond authority, and cannot be controlled; and that would be intolerable.

K.J. Parker

#3. An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living human sacrifice, in a way.

David Mitchell

#4. I can do a 'Maxim' shoot and be super sexy, but I'm also just a 21-year-old girl, and I look 17 sometimes.

Julianna Guill

#5. A person who has 'tidied up' has both the words and a tidy area to show for it. It is much harder to find a word that describes the giving-up-things mode of attention a mother is giving to her baby.

Naomi Stadlen

#6. Many of us have pain, regrets, and disappointments buried so far deep down inside ourselves, we have no idea they're there or how they're manifesting in our everyday lives.

Rebecca Rosen

#7. Have you ever been lucky enough to figure out where your dreams come from? I have. I've written many poems about a place that I have only been to in my dreams. This beautiful place is called Korea.

Ronald J. Chapman

#8. May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.

Bryant McGill

#9. Tom. I'd like to

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. People who work for money are no good. People who work for honor are also no good. That leaves only one reason. Love!

NisiOisiN

#11. All you had to do was crack up and beg to see the Governor; grovel at his feet and admit to being a dissident; heartily repent your sins, and volunteer for elective brain surgery.

H.M. Forester

#12. Peace is the only destination worth searching for.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

Lauren Conrad

#14. Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

Horace Walpole

#15. There will never be another now -
I'll make the most of today.
There will never be another me -
I'll make the most of myself.

Helen Keller

#16. Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.

Christin Lore Weber