Balance From Edward Cullen Quotes & Sayings

We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning. — John Daniel

I lean into the mirror. eyes after eyes after eyes stare back at me. am i in there somewhere? — Laurie Halse Anderson

We are using social media and technology as a way to be noticed by others, and often seek validation through "likes," "retweets," etc. — Jason Treu

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community. — Daniel Everett

One makes war to win, not because it's just. — Michel Foucault

In the dark, in no starlight at all, the blocks hurtled invisibly by, ejected into the night air; he heard them break but he believed it was only the echoes of broken windows, not even his broken windows but someone else's in some other city, people all over the night searching madly for those who transmitted the vague and unpersuasive frequency of destiny, not even this night but some other night that came before, from which the sound of breaking windows reached him only now like the light of novae. Ice busting in the dirt. The storm turned north. — Steve Erickson

Whether the emotion is true or truly wished for, anytime anything resembling love comes my way, it makes a fool of me. It — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly. — Ben Okri

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If, on the other hand, I relate to others from the perspective of myself as someone different - a Buddhist, a Tibetan, and so on - I will then create walls to keep me apart from others. — Dalai Lama XIV

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison