Wisdom Quote by Vera Jane Cook — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I should have seen his weaknesses and only given him a section of myself but I loved him to my core, no matter who he was. There were no hidden places in my heart that would not welcome him or any sacred ground inside my being that he could not walk upon.”

“Life must be much more evident when one is always suffering.”

“He had become like an old sweater, full of holes but never to be discarded, too many cold nights to find it in the back of a drawer and pull out.”

“Clarissa noticed his eyes, they were like indifferent tides, shielding knowledge of an impending storm”

“I guess, if you ever had God figured out the universe would be split in thousands of pieces and it would disappear and we who have dreamed ourselves alive would all fade away in all those splintered parts. What I mean to say is, it isn't meant for us to know anything.”

“I wonder why the dead can't talk, look at all the crimes we'd solve if the damn dead would just Ouija board us our answers, or tell all those weird psychic people who killed 'em.”

“The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.”

“We destroy in assumptions”

“What you give your energy to must sustain you, not quielty drain you.”

“learn from the past live in the present plan for the future”

“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?”

“Being poor will get you closer to the devil, and being lazy will get you closer to being poor. Meaning being lazy got the potential to bring trouble and more trouble, which can influence you to commit trouble if you don't change your course of action. To put it simply, just as a seed can grow into a flower, your laziness can grow into a sin.”