Babingtons Quotes & Sayings

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!' — Sophie Monk

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love. — Rumi

Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you! — Fanny Fern

The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it's over but really wish it would go on forever. The justification of climbing is climbing, like the justification of poetry is writing; you don't conquer anything except things in yourself ... . The act of writing justifies poetry. Climbing is the same: recognizing that you are a flow. The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow. It is not a moving up but a continuous flowing; you move up to keep the flow going. There is no possible reason for climbing except the climbing itself; it is a self-communication. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works. — Norman Vincent Peale

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war. — Howard Bloom

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. — Eric Hoffer

The purpose of life is to remember. — Henry Miller

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against. — Chuck Palahniuk

If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works — Barack Obama

I don't really like the world 'muse.' — Craig McDean

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part. — Kevin Kelly

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam. — Richard Price

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you. — Karen Marie Moning

At every person's birth, he or she is assigned a certain daemon by his own star, a guardian of life to help with his destined task. — Marsilio Ficino