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“All fires burn out at last.”
Source : Sigrid Undset (1927). “The cross”
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“Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.”
Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1969). “History of Women Suffrage”, Ayer Co Pub
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“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.”
Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 30, p. 68, 1926.
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“My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.”
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“God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.”
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“You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal.”
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“going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere”
Source : Gary Soto (2006). “Buried Onions”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.”
