- You can boast about anything if it’s all you have — from East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Probably the most unexplainable reality in all the universe is how you can have everything and simply want something else you’ve been told not to get. That’s madness! You’ve got a million dollars and sold yourself for the quarter you find on the ground — Dan Allendar in The Heart of Man
- (To a student who was picking her nose during piano lesson)
Me: Do you need a tissue?
Student: No. (guiltily avoiding eye contact, shaking her head)
(Student continues to her pick nose, placing her hands back on the piano)
Me: Well, (handing her the box of tissues from on top of the piano) I insist.
- The lazy servant (in the parable of the talents) lived by his feelings (fear) not the truth — Ron Blue
- One can’t see what props me up, protects me. What hides the vulnerable part remains invisible. But the absence is an illusion. I am always aware of my scaffolding, without which I, too, would collapse…without it I would feel more independent. But I would miss my scaffolding, a group of dear friends who guided and girded me, to whom I connect one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life — from In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Brave Sparrow 