Susan Gabriel > Susan's Quotes

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
― William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems

“It's not forgetting that heals. It's remembering.”
― Amy Greene, Bloodroot

“Some creatures are just meant to be left alone. They can’t be held on to, even if we love them more than anything.”
― Amy Greene

“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

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

“If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.

If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
― Nancy Pearl

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles