Flora Wingrave Quotes

#1. The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?

Steven Pressfield

#2. Be sure not to turn your life into a series of tasks which must always be performed... I know it can seem appealing to live in a state of accomplishing things, always succeeding, always getting things done. But consider this. A whole life lost. A sacrifice to your fragile sense of order.

Kevin Hooyman

#3. Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

Amy Sedaris

#4. Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

Cassandra Clare

#5. The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.

Martha Manning

#6. O endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. All art moves between the extremes.

Jan Fries

#8. Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Isaac Mayer Wise

#9. I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#11. The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Silvio Berlusconi