E. B. White Quotes

If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.

I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

The key to success is emotional stability.

Confidence is its own security.

I feel that when a child has self-worth and purpose, that's what keeps them grounded.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

A place to go - that's what my mother always instilled in me. You need a place to go. And you're worthless unless you have a place to go.

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.