#be

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#begins #begun #difficult #know #less

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#disclosures #eyes #less #life #may

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes! ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#any #become #boy #i #just

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. ↗

— Peter Scott

#always #believed #bogey #danger #eagle

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bach #beethoven #i #jane #jane austen

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#afraid #am #deliberate #i #i am

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances. ↗

— Sheldon Vanauken

#christianity #religion #religion

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion. ↗

— Courtney Love

#cult #leader #like #own #really

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler. ↗

— Mike Farrell

#conversation #cooler #difference #intimate #people