Posted 2/19/2020 11:59 PM (GMT 0)
PA Grandma, Joyce, use to post on this Depression forum, and for awhile did a column of jokes and words of wisdom. Her last column was 5/1/2018 before she passed away not long after that.
For about a week, I wrote her column for her, which consisted largely of sayings. I came across some more today and thought I would pass them along, which brings Joyce back to mind.
These are quotes from literature.
1. “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
2. “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
3. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
4. “Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.” ― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
5. “And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” —
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
6. "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God darn it, you've got to be kind."
— Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
7. “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
8. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
— John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
9. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
10. “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” –Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
11. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
12. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” -- Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!