Attunement Altar Quotes & Sayings

I see the people who have lived here forever. They walk quickly, indifferent to the buildings. They cross the squares without stopping. I — Jhumpa Lahiri

We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love. — Nirmala Srivastava

For me it's connection-the pleasure of an expansive, long-ranging dinner conversation with people who do all sorts of things and being able to come back to that night, night after night, and pick up threads and follow them. There's a voyeuristic pleasure, there's a synthetic pleasure, but primarily it's the pleasure of being able to live in a frame of time that the rest of life conspires to annihilate. — Richard Powers

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it's a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I've gotten to the point where I just don't worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it's only mildly upsetting. — Michael Ian Black

Someday, I will be brave enough to say these things to you in person. For now, I remain in happy, quiet contemplation over you and can say tonight that I just might love you. Or could someday. — Erin McCahan

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space. — Robert Moss

Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going. — P.G. Wodehouse

We can convince ourselves of almost anything. We can talk ourselves, and often others, into most anything. — David M. Butcher

Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. — Soseki Natsume

As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing. — Hart Bochner

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. — Pope John Paul II

A few days earlier, Adriana and I had been browsing books at the local library. I happened to turn around and look at her ... and that was it. The man who "loved to laugh" in Mary Poppins had nothing on us. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

She stayed out there, staring into the snow until the chevelle's engine noise faded into the distance. He was gone, and she was alone up there, alone and apart from the city so peaceful under it's snowy blanket. The buildings spreading from the edge of her roof were full of people, full of lives. Inside them lovers huddled together against the cold. Inside them families laughed or fought or whatever it was families did together. And here she stood, invisible, trapped, alone. And for the first she can remember alone didn't feel very good. And that was the scariest thing of all. — Stacia Kane

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here? — Lorne Michaels

A supposedly daring insight came up, disguised as a question: Dr. Cole, aren't humans the most invasive species of all? She'd fielded that one many times before, during public lectures and even in her days as a teaching assistant [...] 'I'm not unsympathetic to that line of thinking,' she answered, 'but even if it's true, we're also the only species in any position to do anything about it. — Joe Pitkin