Mark Saha > Mark's Quotes

“Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.”
― Larry McMurtry

“I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Be joyful because it is humanly possible.”
― Wendell Berry

“I say to people that I’m not an optimist, because that, in a sense, is something that depends on feelings more than the actual reality. We feel optimistic, or we feel pessimistic. Now, hope is different in that it is based not on the ephemerality of feelings but on the firm ground of conviction. I believe with a steadfast faith that there can never be a situation that is utterly, totally hopeless. Hope is deeper and very, very close to unshakable. It’s in the pit of your tummy. It’s not in your head. It’s all here,” he said, pointing to his abdomen. “Despair”
― Dalai Lama, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Even as zombies, ridiculous prom gowns were the downfall of teenage girls, crippling them at the knees.”
― G.G. Silverman, Vegan Teenage Zombie Huntress

“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.”
― Willard Van Orman Quine

“A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“How much we know ourselves is extremely important but how we treat ourselves is the most important.”
― Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
― Rumi

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
― Iain Thomas

“Life’s not supposed to be exciting,” Delphine said. “Only certain things are, like a good soccer game, or when you fall in love and stuff. Other than that, the way life works is it gets you used to absolutely everything too fast, so that it becomes harder and harder to really enjoy anything other than maybe the repetitiveness itself, if you’re one of those weird people, and that’s that.”
― Camille Bordas, Most Die Young