true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend
Quotes by Thornton Wilder
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?"
Does anyone ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?
In love's service only wounded soldiers can serve.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love.
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

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