Quotes of Frederick Buechner

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

- Frederick Buechner

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“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ 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

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Every second that passes is another grain of sand in your hourglass that is gone, forever lost in time. ”

- Nyki Mack

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

- Leo Buscaglia

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your selfesteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it. ”

- Kamand Kojouri

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Her footprints are leaving green marks on the desert heart of mine ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax