Ruth Gendler Quotes

#1. I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.

Josh Wagner

#2. Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years ...

J. Ruth Gendler

#3. Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line - less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

Thomas Hardy

#4. To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.

Daniel G. Amen

#5. Little plots and stories, acted out and screened, can't possibly be called cinema. They have nothing whatever to do with cinema. A cinematographic work is above all a work which would not be possible in any other art form. In other words. it can be created by means of cinema, and cinema alone

Andrei Tarkovsky

#6. Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

J. Ruth Gendler

#7. Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

J. Ruth Gendler

#8. I'm sorry Brooke. I didn't know that when I thought I was eating a fried chicken sandwich, I was really eating bigotry and oppression.

Gisele Walko

#9. The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.

J. Ruth Gendler

#10. Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

J. Ruth Gendler

#11. Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry ... Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

J. Ruth Gendler

#12. When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert