Anna Quindlen Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Soul, Mind

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

• [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Home

• Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

  Anna Quindlen

  Courage, Heart, Character

• People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Heart, Wine

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, Random House Large Print Publishing

• When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Mother, New York

• This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Children, Perfect

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.5, Ballantine Books

• The purse is the mirror of the soul.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mirrors, Soul, Purses

  1987 In the NewYorkTimes,16 Dec.

• The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

  Anna Quindlen

  Leadership, Government, Differences

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.183, Ballantine Books

• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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