Janet > Janet's Quotes

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”
― John Gillespie MaGee Jr.

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz