Rachel Simon quotes

“A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.”
-- Rachel Simon

#Fighting Quotes #World Quotes #Fists Quotes

“There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.”
-- Rachel Simon

Source : Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.189, Hachette UK

#Sadness Quotes #Rainy Day Quotes #Two Quotes

“Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.”
-- Rachel Simon

Source : Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.187, Random House

#Space Quotes #People Quotes #Silence Quotes

“There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.”
-- Rachel Simon

#Book Quotes #Two Quotes #Library Quotes

“A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.”
-- Rachel Simon

Source : Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.192, Hachette UK

#Rainy Day Quotes #Important Quotes #Lost Hope Quotes

“Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.”
-- Rachel Simon

Source : Rachel Simon (2013). “Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Way Quotes #Fields Quotes #Destination Quotes

“When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God ...”
-- Rachel Simon

Source : Rachel Simon (1894). “Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890”

#Mean Quotes #Religion Quotes #Inward Quotes

“In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.”
-- Rachel Simon

Source : Rachel Simon (1894). “Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890”

#Religious Quotes #Women Quotes #Adversity Quotes

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.”

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.”

Source : Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.327, Da Capo Press

“Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.”

Source : Alice Duer Miller, “Forsaking All Others Part 4”

“Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.”

“Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.”

“She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.”

“Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.”