20th-century Author Quotes

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing...

How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?

If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.

Janet Campbell Hale

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

Donald Hamilton

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.

I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Reginald Horace Blyth

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

Andrew Davidson (author)

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

James K. Baxter

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.

When you go into the world today, before you leave your home, promise yourself that you'll find at least one miracle. Without any limits or bounds on what you think it should look like, simply state for yourself your clear intention that of the many miracles that cross your path, you'll recognize one of them.