Arbenita Quotes & Sayings

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

He took her in his arms and kissed her-kissed her the way he'd been longing to kiss her since he first laid eyes on her, kissed her not like a romance novel hero or a Shadowhunter warrior or some imaginary character from the past, but like Simon Lewis kissing the girl he loved more than anything in the world. — Cassandra Clare

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population. — Craig Kilborn

I mean it. I know Stacy thinks just because you're shy, she can step all over you, but that's B.S. — Danielle Joseph

What you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to buy — Carolyn Wells

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. — Jeremiah Wright

She died.i survived
because i survived.i die everyday. — Ravinder Singh

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough. — Melanie Griffith

Across from her, Hunter devoured her meal even more completely than she had. Sinclair watched her sink sharp teeth into the chicken bone, heard it snap, then the soft grunt of satisfaction. She made soft sucking sounds then emptied her mouth of the tiny ground up remains on a corner of her dish. Hunter ate with rabbit-like intensity, biting and sucking and spitting in an even rhythm until all that was left on the plate was a small brown and beige pile of ground bones. She finally looked up and caught Sinclair staring. — Fiona Zedde

You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between He closed the door and He slammed the door, and you'll get no argument from me . . . . but what about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before He closed the door firmly? Shouldn't this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, isn't firmly an extra word? Isn't it redundant? Someone out there is now accusing me of being tiresome and anal-retentive. I deny it. I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. — Stephen King

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. — Philip Sidney

The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God."[ — Gregory A. Boyd

Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams. — Meb Keflezighi

The music I have created, along with the other Beach Boys, has taken me all over the world. For these past 50 years, I guess you could say, 'I get around.' — Mike Love

I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness overwhelms me and I don't know what's the matter. That is, I know but I won't admit it. I'm just tired from writing. As you get older, writing becomes harder. By that I mean you see so many more potentialities. Things like transition used to trouble me. But not any more. When I say it's harder, I'm not talking about facility. You learn all the so-called tricks, but then you don't want to use them. — John Steinbeck