to be Quotes

“We ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.”

“What you think you are is a belief to be undone.”

“…always he was alert for information, for lessons on how to be.”

“I aspire to be an old man with an old wife laughing at old jokes from a wild youth.”

“I don’t want to be any stenogerer,′ put in Flossie. ‘I’m going to keep a candy store, and have all the candy I want, and ice-cream_”

″‘What happens when they buy you?’ he asked her. ‘That, of course, is outside of my experience,’ said the elephant, ‘but I should think that one simply goes out into the world and does whatever one does. One dances or balances a ball, as the case may be.‘”