81ranch Quotes & Sayings

That first starfish you choose to toss back into the ocean is the most important one: It is you. — Anonymous

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
— Eknath Easwaran

At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form. — Ferdie Pacheco

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. — Donald Miller

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless — Hugh Laurie

We were a bookish family. we loved our books, but before long they were lined up next to the stove and my mother and my uncle fought over which should go first and which should be saved to the very last. The Iliad was a beautiful first edition, the pride of our library, but it too went: Agamemnon, king of men, Nestor, flower of Achaean chivalry, the Black Ships, Patroclus' corpse, Helen's bracelets, Cassandra's shrieks, all met the flames, for he sake of two or three suppers. My uncle was loath to let Mark Twain go...Huckleberry Finn and his river did not deserve such an ignominious end. — Edna O'Brien

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview. — Anthony Daniels

This is what we do. We do crazy shit because we're broken. That's who we are. That's what we do. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

The beginning of prayer is silence ... — Mother Teresa