Adopt Don't Shop Quotes & Sayings

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. — Sonia Sotomayor

People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine. — Vanessa Hudgens

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly when alone with your characters. All other times, I'm panting
just pining for the next time I can be with them. — Karen Luellen

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets. — Lucretius

Talk away. If you bore us, we have books."
With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it. — E. M. Forster

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness. — Raj Singh

Anger is a consuming thing, a burning takeover.
It sets up shop in your heart and head and murders anything else attempting to makes it way in. Life becomes obsessed with it, clouded with it, engrossed in it. You justify feeling with delusions that you're owed retribution. You condone thoughts and vengeful acts, feeding yourself with the idea that it's warranted.
But that nourishment comes at a price. It costs you pieces of your soul, your love, your worth. You disregard your beliefs, your conscience. You adopt apathy like it's salvation because you know in your heart of hearts that you would deteriorate into nothing without it. Because you don't want to let it go. It makes you feel powerful, that anger. It makes you feel important. So you will let it eat you alive, consume every part of you until all that's left is hollow revenge. — Fisher Amelie

Grace removes obstacles that we don't even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within. — Krishna Das

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things. — John Edgar Wideman