18 quotes
"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."
- E.B. White
Awareness
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
- E.B. White
Balance
"I wake up in the morning torn between the desire to save the world and to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
- E.B. White
Balance
"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing."
- E.B. White
Relationships
"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into autumn—the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change."
- E.B. White
Adversity
"Writing is an act of faith, not a grammar trick."
- E.B. White
Creativity
"‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’"
- E.B. White
Connection to Earth
"Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
- E.B. White
Connection to Earth
"Never hurry and never worry!"
- E.B. White
Inner Peace
"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort."
- E.B. White
Contentment
""Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.""
- E.B. White
Education
"Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing."
- E.B. White
Gratitude
"You have been my friend…That in itself is a tremendous thing."
- E.B. White
Gratitude
"The quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready."
- E.B. White
Adaptation
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."
- E.B. White
Philosophy
"Democracy is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles."
- E.B. White
Philosophy
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
- E.B. White
Philosophy
"Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had."
- E.B. White
Knowledge