Quotes of Lisa Alther

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I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

- Lisa Alther

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“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Paul McCartney

“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”

- Julie Kagawa

“ My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or timezones! ”

- Avijeet Das

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Fools Rush In

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

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

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ To being far away from everything and everyone Stefanie Sybens, Letters from the WhatWentBefore ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes. ”

- Steve Backley

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried. ”

- Rosamund Hodge

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ Dream so big you get uncomfortable telling smallminded people. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon