"Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'"

-- Louis Sachar

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Small Steps Quotes

“Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.”
“Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.”
“A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.”
“I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.”
“Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence.”
“If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.”
“The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.”

Source : William Stringfellow, Bill Wylie Kellermann (1994). “A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William Stringfellow”, p.165, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”

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