617 quotes found
“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed too, more often than other doctors. Being an expert in dep...”
“The minutes felt as long as years and I couldn't be in the sort of time that didn't move, that instead stood still and all I could think of was being allowed to die, being allowed to cut the thread...”
“Animals in childrens literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.”
“Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.”
“Violet smiled up at Nikolai. "I'm so very glad you came to Riversleigh."Nikolai looked serious as he thought for a moment. "You know what, myshka? I'm very glad too. The old world and the old ways ...”
“One of the things about writing that inspires--and impresses me, is the music words can make. And, like music, the spaces between the notes can mean as much as the notes themselves. -- The Jesus Horse”
“The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.”
“We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us.”
“Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It's who we become that gives the story body, form and meaning.”
“We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.”
“And now the thought came to me that I lived much of my life through the pages of books as well. That perhaps I, too, was only a paper figure. A cut-out, or silhouette. Flat.I always thought I knew ...”
“.....no man should be without those moments of reality, those experiences that tell him that he is only a mortal and not a god”
“If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.”
“Pay attention to your life and you will see bits of 'magic' that happens precisely when you need it to happen.”
“Life lessons cannot be applied topically.”
“I have a shocking memory - I remember everything.”
“Grace is the best accessory that a woman can wear”
“Study skills really aren't the point. Learning is about one's relationship with oneself and one's ability to exert the effort, self-control, and critical self-assessment necessary to achieve the be...”
“There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there is to know.”
“In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially grown up and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.”
