Geri Ahearn > Geri's Quotes

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
― Will Shortz

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I’m writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is my belief that this is all there is to it.”
― Don Carpenter

“I will drink life to the lees.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard

“Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild