Addys Villas Quotes & Sayings

Mate after mate we find ourselves trying to adapt to who they want us to be till eventually we lose our true identity. We spend countless years learning each mate but never take the time to learn ourselves. In the end we know our mates better than we know ourselves. If and when the mate walks away we are stuck living with a stranger, ourselves. If u can't find comfort in urself how can anyone else find comfort in u? — Al-Saadiq Banks

Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God. — Sara Miles

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice! — Shirley Knight

I wanted to see if I could write a good book. — James D. Watson

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. — Pete Townshend

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too. — Henry David Thoreau

He bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of his circumstances, like a skilful general who marshals his limited forces with all the strategy of war . . . . He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy, and is afraid of solitude.59 — Will Durant

These are hopeful stories from hopeless times. Without them the grief of this nation would tip it into the sea. — Nathan Englander

When I made my mother a DNR, I did not know it meant do not rescue. — Sheri Fink

Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world. — Mary McLeod Bethune