a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
Samuel JohnsonTag: autobiography tea teaism kettle
Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew.
Anne MoodyTag: nature god religion faith autobiography civil-rights coming-of-age-in-mississippi
...if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only express himself in his creation—then there are some of us to whom an open display of sentiment is repugnant.
Joseph ConradTag: autobiography literary-theories
It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and what you're capable of, that you no longer believe in limits. It's about reaching beyond your so-called potential, because your potential is never where you or anyone else expects it to be, not even close. It's about being able to say with the last breath of your life “I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder.
Charlotte ErikssonTag: goals inspiration autobiography motivation prose independent self-development character-development musician self-growth fighting-spirit
Tell the Truth. Make it Special.
Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown.
Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.
Tag: autobiography automotive social-history
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No Man lives who has not seen some of his prayers granted.
Sri Paramahansa YoganandaTag: autobiography
If you don't invite God as a summer guest, he will not come in the winter of your life" said Lahiri Mahasaya
Sri Paramahansa YoganandaTag: autobiography
I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
Clive BarkerTag: poetry autobiography abarat
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.'
It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.
Tag: autobiography death-of-a-loved-one
If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.
Virginia WoolfTag: life autobiography memory
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