Fran C3 A7ois Mauriac Quotes

#1. It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

Francois Mauriac

#2. In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

Peter Gabriel

#3. The heart is so easily mocked, believing that the sun can rise twice or that roses bloom because we want them to.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. History as a whole is the struggle between love and the inability to love, between love and the refusal to love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

Jean De La Bruyere

#6. Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

Rachel Gibson

#7. We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

Thomas McGuane

#8. There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

Joanna Macy