Ashlyn Homes Quotes & Sayings

Artists often enslave their friends. — Wladimir Kaminer

The person I am and the person I wish to be are not the same. But if the gap between both decreases day-by-day, then it is okay. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Our hearts are not pure:
our hearts are filled with need
and greed as much as with love and grace,
and we wrestle with our hearts all the time.
The wrestling is who we are.
How we wrestle is who we are.
What we want to be is never what we are.
Not yet. Maybe that's why we have these
relentless engines in our chests, driving us forward
toward what we might be.
Orion (Jan/Feb 2005) — Brian Doyle

A bird's wing, comrades," he said, "is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg. — George Orwell

It isn't about kneeling in strange places at strange times; it's about the willingness to obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit. It's about a willingness to kneel anyplace, anytime. — Mark Batterson

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current. — Kobo Abe

He couldn't remember being a child and being able to define happiness: there was only misery, or fear, and the absence of misery or fear, and the latter state was all he had needed or wanted. — Hanya Yanagihara

I need more than the streets. I don't want to be a floating crap game all my life. I want to be something ... anything. — Hubert Selby Jr.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in. — Larry Bird