Arakhne Quotes & Sayings

Worry is unnecessary weight on the mind;
replace it with hope.
Fear is unneeded weight on the heart;
substitute it with love.
Hate is undesirable weight on the soul;
supplant it with God. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Our world isn't about ideology anymore. It's about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business practices, and the few organizations with the corporate willpower to master these complexities will inevitably own the political power. On the other hand, movements like the Tea Party more than anything else reflect a widespread longing for simpler times and simple solutions - just throw the U.S. Constitution at the whole mess and everything will be jake. For immigration, build a big fence. Abolish the Federal Reserve, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education. At times the overt longing for simple answers that you get from Tea Party leaders is so earnest and touching, it almost makes you forget how insane most of them are. — Matt Taibbi

So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. — Neil Gaiman

True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior! — Watchman Nee

I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live. — Plato

I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands. — Francesca Lia Block

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle - the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know. — Janet Frame

Keep them hungry and they will certainly become realists. — M.F. Moonzajer

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. — Jonathan Lethem

We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end. — Pearl Zhu

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean. — Paramahansa Yogananda