Ability To Read Directions Quotes & Sayings

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything. — Anthony De Mello

God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. — Sylvia Plath

I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection. — Marc Maron

Oh, my young friends and fellow sinners! beware of presuming to exercise your poor carnal reason. Oh, be morally tidy! Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice! — Wilkie Collins

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. — John Dewey

Most things in life are only as difficult as you allow them to be. — Gemma Burgess

You don't have permission to disrespect yourself. — Martin De Maat

... Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink. - The Narrator. — Nikos Kazantzakis

As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent ... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard. — Soren Kierkegaard

NY 101. It'll rob you and cheat you. It'll take your friends and turn them on you. It'll kick your ass and break your heart. But then it'll pick you up again, make you feel so totally alive and untouchable. It's the center of the world, it's the best place in the world, and once it's in your heart it'll never leave you. — Ryan Kelly

Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible. — Paulo Coelho

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. — Mahatma Gandhi

Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye. — Rebecca Scherm

School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children. — Daniel Goleman