Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.Elizabeth Goudge
Quotes to Explore
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
Wale -
A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi -
I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
Iman -
I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... It definitely helped me more than hurt me.
Nate Torrence -
There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
Zendaya
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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
Victoria Osteen -
Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
Usher -
I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
Carla Bruni -
Every burden is a blessing.
Walt Kelly -
Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Someone's gonna get hurt before you're through.Someone's gonna pay for the things you do.How many hearts must break, how many will it take?To satisfy you, just to satisfy you?
Waylon Jennings
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Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
John Adams -
The run's the business end of a triathlon: it's where you win or lose the race. I like to get out very hard, make other people hurt sometimes, and other times leave it to the last kilometre and really win the race there.
Alistair Brownlee -
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Max Lerner -
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
James Broughton -
Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.
Louise Slaughter -
Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
Parker Posey -
With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.
Steve Martin -
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
Ralph Regula -
I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.
Lorde -
...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
Elizabeth Goudge