Say - Quotes
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
A word is dead when it`s been said,
some say.
I say it just begins to live
that day.
It doesn`t matter what people tell you. It doesn`t matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you`re headed in the exact right direction.
Let gratitude be the pillow
Upon which you kneel to
Say your nightly prayer
And let faith be the bridge
You build to overcome evil
And welcome good.
You`re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you`re never as bad as they say when you lose.
I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.
The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We`re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn`t work, don`t buy it. Create your own. Most people can`t do it.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
You’re crazy. You fall down, stand up and walk again,
your ankles and your knees move pain that wanders around,
but you start again as if you had wings.
The ditch calls you, but it’s no use you’re afraid to stay,
and if someone asks why, maybe you turn around and say
that a woman and a sane death a better death wait for you.
Some friends don`t understand this. They don`t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you`re wonderful just the way you are. They don`t understand that I can`t remember anyone ever saying that to me.