Stories from the heart Quotes

“It is only human to be kind to others.”

“Our part in life is to persevere and learn as quickly as we can, for our victory depends upon our perception of the world".”

“Do what is right. Not what you like.”

“The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.”

“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas that have lasted thousands of years, or just since the most recent Harry Potter. I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because they just feel good in my hands, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”

“...reflection can transform something familiar.”

“I wait for what comes and experience the joy and delight of the unexpected.”