Aravena Elemental Quotes & Sayings

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go.
Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying.
Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for. — Ann Brashares

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise — David Zindell

You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth. — Richard Grossman

Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled- 'you must taste all things, actually to know if you like them.' And what good is that, I wanted to ask, if the most delicious fruit is forbidden? — Claire Messud

slow and steady diligence is the true way to wealth. — Walter Isaacson

Power is given only to the one who dares to reach down and take it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A blunt statement can be as false as any other. — Mason Cooley

If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you say " I knoe " tht is trulie wht love is. <3 — Melissa De La Cruz

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.' — Bernie Mac

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep. — Heraclitus

Is there anybody there? said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door. — Walter De La Mare

Their casual discussion of the characteristics of the man who had shown interest in their mother had seemed unreal to her. — Musharraf Ali Farooqi

All you have to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you will find people who are eager to fill your head with information." WALT DISNEY — Pat Williams