Susanna Tamaro Quotes

#1. Without faith we count down the days to death, with it we count up the days till happiness

Andrew Lowery

#2. 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

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

Susanna Tamaro

#4. 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

#5. Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He was a classical, I think, conservative. But he believed that civil rights provided in the Constitution applied to everybody.

Jeff Sessions

#6. Just because someone's older and you think they're cooler doesn't mean you should abandon your real friends.

Alex Mack

#7. 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

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

Susanna Tamaro

#9. 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

#10. I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever.

John Marsden

#11. If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Noreena Hertz

#12. I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Kate Winslet

#13. 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

#14. Reality is overrated," I reply, removing her wings.

Anthony Paull

#15. I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

Anna Chancellor

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

Susanna Tamaro