Know your own mind and you will be as wise as the sages.

All of you were given two great gifts: your mind and your time.

The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

If the sore spot is not fatal, if it does not grow and block something, you can use its power for many years, until the heart resorbs it.

Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, "tweet". I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.

Spend the afternoon. You can&#39;t take it with you.

Annie Dillard

Quotes by Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

Written By Annie Dillard

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