Tarrafal Beach Quotes

#1. It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.

Caroline Myss

#2. It is not so easy to always remember who you are.

Catherynne M Valente

#3. Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil.

Mark T. Barnes

#4. She looked all around. It was so strange to feel trapped in the middle of so much open space. But that was exactly how she felt.

Chris Kurtz

#5. If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

Paulo Coelho

#6. No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.

Peter Drucker

#7. I sing everywhere. I have a very patient husband. He says he doesn't mind. But we've only been married a year and a half!

Anne Hathaway

#8. Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#9. Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

Thomas Harris

#10. Real love sometimes means saying goodbye.

Bryant McGill

#11. Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature's immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens us to the beauty inscribing our own humanity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.

Francis Chan

#13. You ask me to forgive you? I'm thanking you. You finally loved me in that moment, and that love set me free, released me from my sworn duty.

Leland Dirks

#14. The most important possession of a country is its population. If this is maintained in health and vigour everything else will follow; if this is allowed to decline nothing, not even great riches, can save the country from eventual ruin.

Albert Howard