Willa Cather Quotes
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I love writing songs.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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Sweet empty sky of June without a stain,Faint, gray-blue dewy mists on far-off hillsWarm, yellow sunlight flooding mead and plain,That each dark copse and hollow overfills:
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No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
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When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.
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I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
