Andresen Quotes & Sayings

All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself. — Anaxagoras

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes, — Carol S. Dweck

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki

You breathed life back into me. It was instinct for me to be there with you. I didn't want to save you, I just didn't know how to leave you. — Tarryn Fisher

No identity is fully chosen by the individual, just as no identity is fully determined by forces external to the individual. This endless interplay between constraint and choice means that identities are necessarily dynamic, emergent, and contextual rather than static, predetermined, and immutable. — Julie Tetel Andresen

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. — Theodor Reik

God's goal isn't simply to fill the world with people who believe the right things. It is to fill the world with people who shine with the brilliance of Christ. — Ann Spangler

A good part of the physical attraction [between the hero and heroine of a romance novel] comes to life during these exchanges as well, since language creates a meeting of the minds. I have long thought that these lines of dialogue carve out the lines of the central love relationship. The dialogue between the hero and heroine creates the central shape of the story. It is the verbal sculpture. — Julie Tetel Andresen

I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I was also exhausted by the effort. I clearly wasn't in shape. You don't just tie on a pair of running shoes and go out and run a marathon. You have to be in running shape, just like you have to be in writing shape. — Julie Tetel Andresen

since humans are not famous for being strictly logical. These — Julie Tetel Andresen

There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city. — Juan Enriquez

Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall. — Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen

I found some way to recovery. But I know, have always known, that I could go back. Mysterious neurons collide and break. The brain bruises. Memories you thought were buried rise up. — Lauren Slater