Assises Quotes & Sayings

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment. — Eckhart Tolle

And - maybe it's ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn't matter since no one's ever going to see this - but does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest — Donna Tartt

Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents; I asked to switch projects. I told my husband it was time to get married after six years of dating! — Ruchi Sanghvi

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. — Octavia E. Butler

Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who'd taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only. — Julia Quinn

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes. — Mason Cooley