Leafy Quotes

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The newest book quotes in the Leafy Quotes collection — passages readers have just added, each with its author, book and the page it came from.

  1. Be like the tortoise- grow a hard shell to protect your strong heart. Be like the eagle- soar above your pain and carry the banner and the wonder of our lives to the farthest corners of the world. Build your strength. Destiny is difficult.

  2. "A writer's task is not merely to describe the world but to deepen our way of seeing it."

  3. For your reflections reflect on the things you do. And the things you do reflect on you.

  4. "Writing is a way of paying attention to life."

  5. What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?

  6. Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

  7. "We have no instrument by which to record the absolute nature of reality, because whatever instrument we use is filtered through consciousness."

  8. "When I was about three years old... I realised that words could move the power in a room."

  9. If your work can surprise you then you have started something worthwhile.

  10. Responsibility is active. Vigilant. Actions become character and character becomes destiny. . .the moment you see something is wrong, you have a responsibility.

  11. Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

  12. Craft is important. The greater the idea, the greater the craft you need.