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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Tombs of Atuan

    You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.
    book-quotespirit

  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Telling

    To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
    book-quotereligionspiritmind

  3. Hermann Hesse _ Narcissus and Goldmund

    I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the difference between us, the difference between men akin to their father and those who take their destiny from a woman; the difference between spirit and intellect.
    book-quotespiritintellectnarziss

  4. Stephen W. Hawking

    My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
    lifespiritgratitudestrength

  5. Ann Patchett _ Commonwealth

    He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back."
    book-quotedeathspiritmotherhood

  6. L.M. Montgomery _ My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B.

    {...} I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground since there seemed to be no meeting place on mine. I learned to hide the thoughts and dreams and fancies that had no place in the strife and clash of the market place. I found that it was useless to look for kindred souls in the multitude; one might stumble on such here and there, but as a rule it seemed to me that the majority of people lived for the things of time and sense alone and could not understand my other life. So I piped and danced to other people's piping - and held fast to my own soul as best I could.
    book-quotesoulspiritreality

  7. E.M. Forster _ Aspects of the Novel

    We move between two darknesses.
    book-quotespirit

  8. Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German

    If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.
    book-quoteinspirationalspirit

  9. Madeleine L'Engle

    Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from death
    deathworldspiritlight

  10. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion.Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender.
    book-quotehistoryhopespirit

  11. Michael Cunningham _ The Hours

    There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my family when my second child was born. And that's what I did. I got up one morning, made breakfast, went to the bus stop, got on a bus. I'd left a note. I got a job in a library in Canada. It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No-one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life." -Laura Brown-
    book-quotelifespiritloneliness

  12. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.
    book-quotespiritlightsadness
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