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“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”
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“The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.”
Source : Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556, 1951.
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“Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.”
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“If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live”
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“And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team toward the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.”
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“Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.”
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“I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.”
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“the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.”
Source : Ann Beattie (2011). “Falling in Place”, p.47, Vintage
