Anestin Grace Quotes & Sayings

A word about Hope House: there are places in the world where so many desperate people have lived and so many bad things have happened that the places themselves have become desperately bad. They're damp and weird and smell like foot fungus. The windows are never clean, and the linoleum curls up at the edges because it can't stand the floor. Every corner is sprayed with cobwebs and quivering shadows. When you walk into those bad places, you can feel a headache brewing between your eyebrows, a churning in your gut, a cold prickle at the back of your neck. You feel sad and angry and helpless, all at the same time. These bad places seem to hate you but, they also seem to want to keep you there very very much. — Laura Ruby

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears. — David Mitchell

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing. — Phillips Brooks

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter. — David McCallum

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one? — Imogen Cunningham

She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself. — Loretta Chase

One of the beauties of homeschooling is that it allows us to recognize and nurture each one of our very special individual children. — Anonymous

Sensibility, imagination, reason, each is subservient to the other. Every one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness, instead of strength, if it were not modified or completed by the collective character of our nature. — Germaine De Stael

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering. — Nobuyuki Fukumoto

You will not forestall my judgement! — Davy Jones

Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life. — Louise Erdrich

...prayer makes us more sensitive to the manifestations of institutionalized lies. — Frei Betto

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron