Jane Smiley Quote

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.

Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.

Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies - and our sp...

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...

The best thing you can wear is self confidence.

Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.