Quotes October 26, 2023

One speaks a word: I.
Louise Gluck,
poet, essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
1943-2023
 
 
 
 
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. … The man who never reads lives only one.
George R.R. Martin,
writer
 
 
 
 
Drone of the neighbor’s mowing, a red mailbox flag erected, a dog bark from three houses over, and this is what a day is.
Ada Limon,
poet, 24th poet laureate of the US
 
 
 
 
You must learn to look at things without preconceptions. Trust nothing.
You know, a lot of strange things happen in this world.
Koji Suzuki,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel
 
 
 
 
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry Van Dyke
 
 
 
 
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower