Alaeia Quotes & Sayings

The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin ... Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it? — Anthony De Mello

Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air ... I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition has it that they sing with the voices of lost lovers. If the stars are smiling on them, you will hear its mate call back in a moment. — Jane Johnson

Nothing is easy. To change or to accept changes is difficult. — Debasish Mridha

Obviously, some part of us loves feeling 1) right and 2) wronged. But outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but, over time, devour us from the inside out. Except it's even more insidious than most vices because we don't even consciously acknowledge it's a pleasure. We prefer to think of it as a disagreeable but fundamentally healthy reaction to negative stimuli, like pain or nausea, rather than admit that it's a shameful kick we eagerly indulge again and again, like compulsive masturbation. — Tim Kreider

Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice. — Chris Abani

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live. — Victor Hugo

Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once. — Paulo Coelho

Yoh: What...a cold?

Asaoka: Yep.

Mami: I just got her message.

Fumi: And just when we're all better too!!

Yoh: Sorry, I have to go...

Asaoka: To take care of Haruna-chan?

Fumi: Ohhh!! You're so nice!!

Yoh: Got a problem with that!?

Asami: Ooh.

Fumi: He admitted it. — Kazune Kawahara

Many times in life, God waits while a situation goes from bad to worse. He appears to let it slip over the edge, so that you and I say, "There's no way now for this ever to work out." But that is the point when the omnipotent God intervenes in our hopelessness and says, "Oh, really? Watch this ... ! — Jim Cymbala