Ariauna Alicia Quotes & Sayings

I hope I die before I get old — The Who

Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value, just like money. They begin to mean nothing. Use 'beautiful' to describe a sandwich and the word means nothing. Since the war, there is no more room for inflated language. Words and feelings are small now - clear and precise. Humble like dreams. — Jess Walter

Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem ... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women. — Sandra Scarr

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances. — Cynthia Voigt

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters. — Baha'u'llah

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. — Henry David Thoreau

Vonnegut was talking," I say today, "about the psychic effects of trauma." There's a sentence of Alice Miller's looping in my mind, about grandiose people and depressives, Narcissus and Echo: "Neither can accept the truth that this loss or absence of love has already happened in the past, and that no effort whatsoever can change this fact." It's the main thing I've learned from reading all this psychology: the future is always trying to feel like the past. When it does, it feels like selfishness, hurt, loss at the hands of others. The trick is to let it empty. Maybe this is another way to come unstuck in time. — Kristin Dombek

What did beauty matter, anyway? — Paul Russell

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen. — Jeff Cooper