320 Quotes About Autobiography

Dacchè mi ricordo, per me la scrittura è sempre stata un fatto privato. Un libro è una rassicurante pila di fogli di carta giallacoperti di parole scritte a macchina, una nazione conosciuta e ospitale in cui mi sento a casa, in grado di trovare un paragrafo o una riga senza difficoltà, di riconoscere al primo sguardo la giusta collocazione di una pagina.

The most useless questions an adult can ask a child- What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that's the end

Similar to any form of meditation, the act of contemplative writing ultimately changes us since it alters how we view the past, the present, and the future.

I have heard that in the United States, people remember exactly what they were doing when planes hit the Twin Towers. In my country, too, we remember a plane crash that way. There is this difference: On September 11, nearly three thousand people died. In Rwanda, smaller in size and population than Ohio, the number was three times that many, every day, for a hundred days.

No one needs to write an autobiography, because everyone's life is already hidden in their glances!

Nothing Beats A Failure But A Try!

and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.

Here’s what I want you to understand. You can’t trust the voice in yourhead—the one that’s talking to you all the time. It’s more often wrong thanright. You can think of this trick as learning to turn the volume way down andeventually turning it off altogether. Then you’ll understand what I’m talkingabout.

Clearly everyone in my life who should have been vertical was horizontal.