Tristans Blog Quotes

#1. All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#2. The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character presented me with a sort of negative proof of my own.

Marcel Proust

#4. His eyes were of a bright, hard blue. His nose was somewhat pointed and there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking - and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? - glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.

Robert Dodsley

#6. My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

Walt Whitman

#7. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, she says, raising the silver chalice to our lips. Receiving from her is my favorite part of Sunday services. She always says her line with such joy, like it is the greatest thing in the world, which, of course, it is.

Lauren F. Winner

#8. It is not merely our adversaries we must investigate ... We must always work to know ourselves better, too.

Kate Milford

#9. Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

Sarah Chalke