Quotes
Authors
Russell Banks

"What you believe matters, however. Itâ€™s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you donâ€™t believe anything is true simply because you canâ€™t logically prove whatâ€™s true, you wonâ€™t do anything. You wonâ€™t be anything. Youâ€™ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. Itâ€™s an old philosophical problem."

-- Russell Banks

#Believe Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.”
“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”

Source : Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.221, Pan Macmillan
“I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.”
“The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they've shaped. Everyone learns this. Born, everyone breathes, pays tax, plants dead and hurts galore. There's grief enough for each. My mother learned by moving man to man, outlived them all. The parched earth's bare (once she leaves it) of any who watched the instants I trod it. Other than myself, of course. I've made a study of bearing and forbearance. Everyone does, it turns out, and note those faces passing by: Not one's a god.”
“Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men - how about "New Car Interior"?”
“Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.”
“Pride is the rope God allows us all.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.89, Atlantic Monthly Press
“Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.”

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