Lynne Reid Banks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.
I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

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