Life Quotes Quote by William Stafford — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I heard a bird congratulating itself”

“The Way It Is”

“Wisdom is having things right in your life”

“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”

“This dream the world is having about itself”

“Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.”

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”

““That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.”

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes connot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee; more gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog. Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality... in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad of eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”