"Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope."

-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Memories Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Converting Quotes

“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”
“I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.”
“There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.”
“There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.”
“I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there is a hard core of wilderness need in everyone, a core that makes its spiritual values a basic human necessity. There is no hiding it....Unless we can preserve places where the endless spiritual needs of man can be fulfilled and nourished, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.”
“Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.”
“I'd never even looked at a pair of skis. I didn't even realise the boots were separate. I thought it was one whole thing.”
“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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