Kelli Russell Agodon quotes

Understand, it's never been easy to live, when we're trying to escape ourselves.
-- Kelli Russell Agodon

#Trying #Easy

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty.
-- Kelli Russell Agodon

#Suffering #Together

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.
-- Kelli Russell Agodon

#Solitude #Desks

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.