L.B. Shire > L.B.'s Quotes

“There's something about a cowboy...”
― Kathleen Ball, Callie's Heart

“Vegr yfir fjor.” Honor above life.”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“silence usually taught him more than the company of others.”
― Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

“October Country... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain...”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound