Akcenti Quotes & Sayings

Ryzhkova was accustomed to tarot with its layers of meaning, interpretations, and reversals, and how a picture might look one way but contain a contrary truth. Used to her silent apprentice, she had forgotten that language itself was as subtle and slippery as her cards, and that words contained hidden seeds that blossomed with a speaker's intent. A wish for safety meant nothing if the force behind it was a desire to kill. Though she spoke of love and protection, dread, grief, and anger bled through. Each word that fell from her tongue bound itself to paper with a small part of her soul, infusing the cards not with love as she thought, but with a hex burned strong and deep by fear. Buried in the heart of the deck, the Fool's eyes shut. She closed the box. A — Erika Swyler

Rather than trusting God, many will doggedly hold onto the belief that there is a divinely-designed formula or biblical methodology that can ensure their child's salvation, and then guarantee the child's sanctification. That debatable belief often leads to finding special methods in Scripture that come with a promise of success. Soon, though, the parents are no longer trusting God, because they no longer need to - they are trusting the methods instead. Those methods, then, can too easily become rules, and then legalism, and then a reliance on works that replaces a life of faith. — Clay Clarkson

National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe. — Todd Tiahrt

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be. — Ray Stevenson

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment. — Peter Drucker

Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right — Arthur W. Pink

Jerry [Garcia] held his guitar and picked some random licks. I spoke from an LSD haze.

'LSD changes perception. Music transcends the musician. You are the vehicle for communication.'

Garcia stopped and stared at me.

'I practice,' Garcia declared. 'Anyone can do that.'

That shut me up and he returned to the guitar — Rhoney Gissen Stanley

If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it. — Jennifer Aniston

The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation ... to see, to feel, to understand the beauty of what lies ahead, of the homeland towards which we walk. — Pope Francis

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day ... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer? — Jim Webb

But even more than I wanted to check out and give my emotional wounds time to scab over, I wanted to live. — Mike Mullin

How people treat you is not very important but how you react to it, is very important. — Debasish Mridha

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous. — Brian Celio

And swear each night to let her go, then love more by dawn. — Lang Leav

Love is a spiritual practice that matures us as we try and try again to leave behind our isolation, expose our vulnerabilities, and make commitments to care truly for one another. — Nanette Sawyer