“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.”
Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902
“I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?”
Source: The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form
“It's better to prepare than to repair.”
Source: The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants
“I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it”
“One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?”
Source: Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life
“Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.”
“It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith