Eleonora's 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. I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.

Tony Dungy

#3. Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

Alexandra Adornetto

#4. Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.

David Lynch

#5. It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

Terry Pratchett

#6. It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood that I was guilty.

Albert Camus

#7. 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

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

Eleonora Duse

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

Eleonora Duse

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

Eleonora Duse

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

Eleonora Duse

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

Eleonora Duse

#13. 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