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Danh ngôn của Annie Dillard (Sứ mệnh: 4)

You can't test courage cautiously.
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.