Alexius Porter Quotes & Sayings

But when you get to a higher level of consciousness, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else. — Wayne Dyer

They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true. — Ginnifer Goodwin

There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You have this annoying ability to say the perfect thing and then ruin it by still talking. — Jen Wylie

Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel- or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good- and as bad- as the man who carries it. Remember that. — Jack Schaefer

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. — Henry Miller

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style. — Isaac D'Israeli

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. — David Brin

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement. — Mervyn Peake

God's grace is the power of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern. — Harriet Lerner

There's a difference between an opportunist, and someone who seizes an opportunity. One selfishly harvests the fruits of another's labor, the other strategically helps plant the seeds. The latter can be an asset, the former will always be a leech. That climb to the top is already back breaking enough! Don't carry opportunists up your ladder of success! — Carlos Wallace

The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dogs. — Harper Lee

People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, 'We can do better.' — Mike Pence