FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Sometimes the strongest thing you will ever do will be to let go of someone. It will be painful, you will suffer guilt, and you will second-guess yourself, but for ... (Lee Goff)

Taking responsibility for yourself and your happiness gives a great freedom to children who have felt guilty and responsible for your unhappiness (which they always do). A child can never ... (Robin Norwood)

I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in ... (Renata Adler)

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And ... (Terry Pratchett)

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win. ... (George Bernard Shaw)

I really believe that when we start talking ourselves back, we'll have more to offer the world." he [Woodenkinfe] said. "I don't want a gray world." "You mean taking back ... (Philip Caputo)

Who we really are shows up between extending the olive branch and waiting to see if it is received. ... (Bonnie Lyn Smith)

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and ... (Ben Jonson)

I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will ... (Charlaine Harris)

Thus it is our daughters leave us, Those we love, and those who love us! Just when they have learned to help us, When we are old and lean upon ... (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Neither fate, nor history, nor the anger of the State, nor the glory or infamy of battle has any power to affect those who call themselves human beings. No, whatever ... (Vasily Grossman)

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in vain to find one that ... (Daniel Tammet)

I once had a dream, or a vision, and I imagined that dream to be of importance to other people, so I wrote the manuscript and made the film. But ... (Ingmar Bergman)

Our lives are made up of time, and the quality of our existence depends on our wise use of the moments we are given. ... (Alexandra Stoddard)

Fire became an emerald mist where it touched his flesh. Its smoke smelled of cinnamon and sulfur, and tasted like pickled starlight. "Did you leave," she asked, "or were you ... (Ian Tregillis)

Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, ... (Joseph C. Rost)

This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, z will a come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. ... (Anonymous)

On the one hand, I have a neighbor who I'm fairly certain thinks I'm the devil, but on the other hand most of my gay or bi friends have never ... (Santino Hassell)

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had ... (John Petrucci)

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. ... (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work. ... (Colette)

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real. ... (Amber Tamblyn)

Since homo sapiens can survive only by unrestrained racial killing, a Jewish triumph of reason over impulse would mean the end of the species. What a race needed, thought Hitler, ... (Timothy Snyder)

What's the matter? Shadowclan attacking? Starclan walking among us? ... (Erin Hunter)

Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy. In the way my body stretches to music and opens ... (Audre Lorde)

When we gather, we are responding to a call to worship; that call is an echo and renewal of the call of creation to be God's image bearers for the ... (James K.A. Smith)

To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy. ... (Sharon Salzberg)

The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that ... (Dan Millman)

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head. ... (David Finch)

After life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art ... (John Geddes)