Quote Bank

“The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.”

“One man looks at a dyin’ bird and thinks there’s nothin’ but unanswered pain. That death’s got the final word. It’s laughin’ at him. Another man sees that same bird—feels the glory. Feels somethin’ smilin’ through it.”

“We were a family. How’d it break up and come apart, so that now we're turned against each other? Each standing in the other’s light. How’d we lose the good that was given us? Let is slip away. Scattered, careless. What's keeping us from reaching out, touching the glory?”

“It does indeed seem that the Christian leader is, first of all, the artist who can bind together many people by the courageous act if giving expression to his or her own most personal concerns.”

“My question … was the simplest of questions, lying in the soul of every man from the foolish child to the wisest elder: it was a question without an answer to which one cannot live, as I had found by experience. It was: ‘What will come of what I am doing today or shall do tomorrow? What will come of my whole life?’ Differently expressed, the question is: ‘Why should I live, why wish for anything, or do anything?’ It can also be expressed thus: ‘Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?’”

“Eternal in its passing, Life

If you are silent, keep silent for love. If you speak, speak for love.

Then, you must do this: help the next person find their way through the dark.

“I seem to have been born with an aptitude for a way of life that was doomed.”

“Her judgment of him, however he might have resented and defied it, had entered into him, and her judgment was that though he might have pride and desire, growing out of his sense of himself and his place, he had, properly speaking, no ambition. He did not want to improve himself or enrich himself or come up in the world. He was a limited man, and offensively so insofar as he appeared satisfied within his limits. and so he began to move now, as he thought, in defiance of her judgment, but actually in unconscious obedience to her judgment’s chief implication: that no place may be sufficient to itself, but must lead to another place, and that all places must finally lead to money; that a man’s work must lead not to the health of his family and the respect of his neighbors but to the market place, to that difference that strangers yield to sufficient cash.”

“He has been around long enough to know that death is the only perfect cure for what ails mortals. After you have stood enough, you die, and that is all right.”

“Art is first a seeing and then a revealing.”

“It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we do not know at all that it is the same with others.”