Eudora Welty

"Adversity reveals character that prosperity conceals."

"The soul speaks in images; the mind speaks in words."

"To love another is to see all their flaws and love them anyway."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of understanding."

"We carry our entire history within us, whether we acknowledge it or not."

"The greatest gift we can give is our full attention."

"Beauty lies in the spaces between words."

"To be alive is privilege enough; everything else is grace."

"The writer's challenge is to look at the world and see it freshly, as if for the first time."

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."

"The most solid thing we have is imagination, that is what carries us from one moment to the next."

"People give each other things that can't be repaid."

"Memory is a weight that accumulates slowly and finally drags us down."

"The act of living is different all through life. It's not one thing, but a sequence."

"We are the breakers of our own silences."

"One place understood deeply is a handle on the universe."

"All serious daring starts from within."

"The mind accumulates marvels."

"There is something in the human heart that wants to rejoice."

"Being alive is itself a lonely act."

"Perhaps it is the solitary mystical experience that bonds most of us to the world."

"The real dramatic force in a story is the conflict within a character's own soul."

"Character is built through our choices, not our circumstances."

"Love is not just a feeling; it is a form of understanding."

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order."

"A writer is not a professional deceiver but a professional truther."

"The truth is something alive and changing."

"We are only alive now, in this moment."

"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty and cruelty the end of kindness."