Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

You don'’t always have to have the answer to everything.

But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

Silence was never a wrong answer.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.

I answer not, and I return no more.

There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.' 'Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, ‘I hope you’ll hear what I’m about to tell you. I hope you’ll hear it all the way down to your toes. When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.

Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there since beginningless time. In fact I was afraid of those jagged monstrosities all around and over our heads. "They're so silent!" I said. "Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sitting there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.