"through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth"
"Man, in his weakness and shortsightedness believes he must make choices in this life. He trembles at the risks he takes. We do know fear. But no. Our choice is of no importance. There comes a time when our eyes are opened and we come to realize that mercy is infinite. We need only await it with confidence and receive it with gratitude. Mercy imposes no conditions. And lo! Everything we have chosen has been granted to us. And everything we rejected has also been granted. Yes, we even get back what we rejected. For mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.
"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. "
"our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home."
"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
"It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness."
"One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel."
(Translated from Danish)" — Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny)
....more - http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8147.Isak_Dinesen
"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. "
"our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home."
"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road."
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
"It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness."
"One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel."
(Translated from Danish)" — Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny)
....more - http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8147.Isak_Dinesen
