Secret Sharer Quotes

#1. Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

David Brooks

#2. The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.

Andrae Crouch

#3. The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in ... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Sarah Dessen

#4. We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

Mariella Frostrup

#5. The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

Gilbert Highet

#6. Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Franz Kafka

#7. There is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

Christine De Pizan

#8. If Christ be your one and only love, if your heart has cast out all rivals, you will not long lack the comfort of His presence.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

Duncan Sheik

#10. I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.

James Purefoy

#11. And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.

Joseph Conrad