A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. Jessamyn West More Quotes by Jessamyn West More Quotes From Jessamyn West The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. Jessamyn West sick different two In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? Jessamyn West soul success men Teaching is the royal road to learning. Jessamyn West learning teaching education The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. Jessamyn West color vegetables animal To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other. Jessamyn West eye listening inspirational It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable. Jessamyn West feels I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful. Jessamyn West creating hate mind With enough libraries, all content is free. Jessamyn West library enough Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells. Jessamyn West wells water people Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish. Jessamyn West study real enough If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. Jessamyn West business real people At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy. Jessamyn West teenage tragedy inspirational Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. Jessamyn West women nature memories The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes. Jessamyn West rocks memories two Justice is a terrible but necessary thing. Jessamyn West umpires terrible justice If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. Jessamyn West being-a-mom want baby People who keep journals have life twice Jessamyn West journal-writing motivational people It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone. Jessamyn West born solitude easy In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults Jessamyn West adults animal children In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy? Jessamyn West cat animal children
