Sarah > Sarah's Quotes

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“Sometimes God gives you strength to do without because, for whatever reason, he knows it's better for you not to have your heart's desire.”
― Sarah Loudin Thomas, Appalachian Serenade

“Maybe that's how I'll know I've found true love--when I find a man who will eat burnt biscuits and dry pork chops.”
― Sarah Loudin Thomas, Appalachian Serenade

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy

“In my experience, God doesn't let us get away with anything. He just leaves us to make our own beds and then lets us lay in 'em...whether we like it or not.”
― Sarah Loudin Thomas, The Right Kind of Fool

“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

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“Other people's expectations can make you do all sorts of things against your better judgment.”
― Sarah Loudin Thomas, The Finder of Forgotten Things

“It was uncanny how the weather could transform the countryside from a thing of beauty into something to be endured.”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector