Karen Blixen House Quotes

#1. I could not personally care less about whether JT Leroy turns out to be fictional or not. I find fictional people writing fiction no more or less objectionable than real people writing fiction, because it's fiction,

John Scalzi

#2. The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place.

Karen Blixen

#3. Every high has an equal, measurable low.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. When leaders die to pushing their own agendas and realize that leadership is the act of dying to self, those around them are profoundly transformed. Selfless leadership opens a space for God to flow into.

Mark Sayers

#5. A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Karen Blixen

#6. Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

Debbie Gibson

#8. Many people do not succeed because they do not want to fight against compromise.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

C.S. Lewis