Quotes of William Stafford

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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

- William Stafford

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“ Our children will be counted, and justice will be served. Our babies deserve a fair chance at life. We are our children’s groundbreakers; therefore, we cannot give up. We might run out of breath but we must have the willpower when moving forward to fight for our children’s voices to be heard. Bullying is not accepted ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ The night still bold The cold singing by The crickets on their turbo Ushering in a celestial night in beautiful robe For tonight he will wonder into a glorious quest of the night As he lay down his head, will the Angels guard him Good night and sweet dreams ”

- Perpetua Ukakogu

“ Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow. ”

- David Kofi Awusi

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ I marinate my life in gratitude, creativity and love. What about you? ”

- Francis Shenstone

“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia