Eleonora Quotes

#1. You are a very special child," the old handmaid said, stroking Eleonora's hair. "You know that don't you?"
Eleonora mumbled a yes.
"You know you are special, but I think that you aren't sure how."
She nodded. That was, indeed, the crux of it.

Michael David Lukas

#2. A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleonora Duse

#4. I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

Eleonora Duse

#5. I respect the hell out of her for how hard she's working to be okay. I just wish she'd let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.

Jasinda Wilder

#6. To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Eleonora Duse

#7. I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.

James Otis

#8. The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Eleonora Duse

#9. When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

Eleonora Duse

#10. If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

Eleonora Duse

#11. The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Eleonora Duse

#12. Bricks could be used to replace stop signs. Some people won't stop at stop signs, but everybody will stop for a brick wall.

Jarod Kintz

#13. I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.

Natalie Martinez