Quotes of Grace Paley

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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

- Grace Paley

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“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family. ”

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Franz Kafka

“ You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are. ”

- Matthew

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere. ”

- Hani Selim

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

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

- Sophocles

“ It is time to stop a young woman from being manipulated to break her ass and tear herself down to the core in order to build a man up. Once she builds him up, more than half the time he leaves her to figure out the millionpiece puzzle of life. Wow! It never amazes me how men forget who was there for them when they didn’t have a damn thing to their name. It’s a timeout for that! ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson