Geraldine Brooks Quote

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humb...

In my experiences, the common critic of Christianity, when he thinks of Christianity, imagines a sort of elementary, Sunday School blunder of elements: fiery Hell, an angry God, 'try not to sin', 'be...

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.