1147 Puerta Quotes & Sayings

That's why all those records from high school sound so good. It's not that the songs were better - it's that we were listening to them with our friends, drunk for the first time on liqueurs, touching sweaty palms, staring for hours at a poster on the wall, not grossed out by carpet or dirt or crumpled, oily bedsheets. These songs and albums were the best ones because of how huge adolescence felt then, and how nostalgia recasts it now. — Carrie Brownstein

no one knew how quickly a human changed into a monster. All she could do was love him until that day came. — Kayti Nika Raet

I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women. — Reese Witherspoon

Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them. — Natalie Portman

I believe love is why we're here on the planet and that ultimately it's our purpose for life. They say people who've had near-death experiences often report back that at the end of our lives we have a life review and we're asked one question, and that question is, how much did you love? — Marci Shimoff

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.
Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns. — Sharon Salzberg

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. — Aleister Crowley

There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it. — Leighton Ford

The Colonel had wanted a general in the family. Hannah would make a great general. Or dictator. — Melinda Leigh

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. — Edmund H. North