Quotes About Tamaro

#1. Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used to press her nose on the glass, peering at things she could never have.

Effrosyni Moschoudi

#2. If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way.

Steve Scalise

#3. Follow your heart, and listen when it speaks to you.

Susanna Tamaro

#4. Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. Voices urging her to try, to reach into herself, to draw out the power. Voices that could turn hard and cold at the slight provocation. Voices that wheedled and threatened and lied.

Cassandra Clare

#6. I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Ann Beattie

#7. Only when we start with the gospel - the most controversial point of Christian faith - are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him.

Michael S. Horton

#8. To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

Susanna Tamaro

#9. Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.

Frantz Fanon

#10. The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways." (19)

Lauren Fox

#11. But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.

Susanna Tamaro

#12. Something in her chest came to life where her heart should have been; something made of living metal and current. Voltage coursed through her body. Frantic branches of lightning jumped out of her, scorching the walls. Tabitha was paralysed;

Andrew Hall

#13. Happiness always has an object ... Depends on external things. Joy ... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

Susanna Tamaro

#14. Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

Joko Beck

#15. Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.

Susanna Tamaro

#16. Life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

Susanna Tamaro

#17. When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.

Miyamoto Musashi

#18. Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.

Susanna Tamaro

#19. The love withheld is always the love we long for most.

Susanna Tamaro