Fortress Besieged Quotes

#1. "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

Brian Tracy

#2. One person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.

Amy Hill Hearth

#3. The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#4. Who among us - if it means letting go of the insanity, the mystery, the totally useless beauty of the million once-possible New Yorks - is ready even now to give up hope? BOOK

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

Clive Owen

#6. I can't take loving people only for them to be taken away. Everyone I love leaves me. I hate it, I fuckin'hate it, it's not right, Can't you stop it, just stop it, fuck, get it to stop!

Marita A. Hansen

#7. Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind ... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

Marcel Proust

#8. I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

Bonnie Tyler

#9. A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

John Millington Synge

#10. when the fortress of the body is besieged on all sides the mind must at length succumb.

Marcel Proust

#11. I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.

Dakota Johnson

#12. Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

Palmiro Togliatti

#13. I'll never know how to love you the right way if I don't also know how to be your friend, Mia.

Bella Andre