"When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest."

-- Antonio Porchia

#Order Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.”
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

Source : Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33
“God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Stearns from Dec 03, 2014
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.”
“I write for young girls of color, for girls who don't even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.”

Source : "Back at you". Interview with Rebecca Carroll, www.motherjones.com. January 1995.
“I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.”
“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.”

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