Mohandas K. Gandhi, on prayer
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
Archive for the ‘writing’ Category
Quote of the day, Aug. 1
August 1, 2017Quote of the day, July 27
July 27, 2017Pete Seeger, on education
Quote of the day, July 24
July 24, 2017William Shakespeare, from As You Like It
“Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
Quote of the day, July 5
July 6, 2017Pat Conroy, on storytelling
“The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.'”
Quote of the day, June 25
June 25, 2017John Gardner, on writing book reviews
“Writing a review isn’t really analytical; it’s for the most part quick reactions—joys and rages. I certainly never write a book review about I don’t think worth reviewing, a flat-out bad book, unless it’s an enormously bad book.”
Quote of the day, March 13
March 13, 2017Ralph Waldo Emerson, on making a new trail
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Quote of the day, March 11
March 11, 2017Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son (1774)
“If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.”
Quote of the day, Feb. 16
February 16, 2017Thomas Paine, from Common Sense (1776)
“… a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
Quote of the day, Feb. 13
February 13, 2017William Zinsser, on writing
“We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.”
Quote of the day, Jan. 1
January 1, 2017William Hazlitt, from Literary Remains (1836)
“To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.”
