Valensole Quotes

#1. I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.' ...
'And I won't give up.

Christopher Paolini

#2. ...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable.

Paula Hawkins

#3. The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

Albert Camus

#4. Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Muriel Spark

#5. Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Rajneesh

#6. I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

Washington Allston

#7. I never worked in an office in my life.

Jack Vance

#8. You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

Henry Rollins

#10. By [Christ's] resurrection life, He gives us the power over the tendency to sin as we allow Him to control our lives.

Billy Graham

#11. The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

Mary Hunter Austin

#12. Read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information

Veronica Roth