Belva Plain famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
-- Belva Plain

#Bird #Desire #Caught
All life is a pattern... but we can not always see the pattern when we are part of it.
-- Belva Plain

#Life Lesson #Patterns #Life Is
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.
-- Belva Plain

#People #Language #Stores
It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
-- Belva Plain

#Women #Lessons #Plans
Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.
-- Belva Plain

#Beauty #Danger
Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.
-- Belva Plain

#Flower #Wine #Europe
Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.
-- Belva Plain

#Family #Grief #Blood
... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
-- Belva Plain

#Sorrow #Coats #Worn
All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.
-- Belva Plain

#Life Lesson #Patterns #Life Is

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
My performances have finally caught up with my ego.
What ever you do-Don't get caught.
As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.

Belva Plain famous quotes

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