Julius Lester famous quotes

03-28-2025

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?
-- Julius Lester

#Hurt #Love You #You Hurt Me
A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.
-- Julius Lester

#Teacher #Years #Helping
It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.
-- Julius Lester

#Love #Heart #Mean
I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.
-- Julius Lester

#Writing #Differences #Details
Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings
-- Julius Lester

#Book #Ideas #Feelings
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
-- Julius Lester

#Normal #Accepting #Young
Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.
-- Julius Lester

#Believe #Practice #Despair
When I read studentsâ€™ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.
-- Julius Lester

#Writing #Appreciate #Creative
Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.
-- Julius Lester

#Art #Sound #Radio
To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?
-- Julius Lester

#Children #Writing #Imagination
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
-- Julius Lester

#Fear #Animal #Dresses
Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.
-- Julius Lester

#Important #Dying #Doe
Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.
-- Julius Lester

#Live Life #Should #Live Your Own Life
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
-- Julius Lester

#Simple #Silence #Sound
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
-- Julius Lester

#Evil #Goodness #Traits
If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?' If you sould ever see my face, you will lose me forever.' Why?' Psyche wanted to know. 'Are you ugly? Are you afraid I won't love you if I see your face?' Perhaps I am afraid that if you see my face, it will be THAT that you will love and not me.' I understand, believe me. I know what that feels like.
-- Julius Lester

#Love You #Believe #Names
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.
-- Julius Lester

#Pain #Wind #Envy
But I want you around even when I don't need you. â€”Jeremy Richards
-- Julius Lester

#Needs #Want
We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.
-- Julius Lester

#Emotional #Important #Emotion
I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. â€”Jenna Richards
-- Julius Lester

#Tired #Thinking #Feelings
Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.
-- Julius Lester

#Years #Months #Feels
Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. â€”Jenna Richards
-- Julius Lester

#Mean #Body
Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.
-- Julius Lester

#Writing #People #Stories

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