Away - Quotes
The flames can not burn away the past. They only make the shadows leap higher.
If you live to be eighty, you’ll have slept thirty years away, gone to school and sat with homework for nine, and worked for almost fourteen. Since you’ve already spent more than six years being little kids and playing, and you’re later going to be spending at least twelve cleaning house, cooking food, and looking after your own kids, it means you’ve got nine years at most to live.
When dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow -
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don`t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
If something doesn`t work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don`t just throw it away. Everything can`t be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
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.
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.