Banjosa Quotes & Sayings

The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever. — Anthony Bourdain

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one. — Roderick Nash

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. — Hilaire Belloc

If you will pursue the truth, you will often end up having to change your mind. — Nancy Murphy

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up. — Natsuki Takaya

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. — Vincent Louis Carrella

The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt. — Joseph O'Connor

the subject of free will another debated topic
do we or don't we have the ability to pick?
greatly controlled by mind at lower levels of consciousness
almost non-existent, one's free will is notably less
at this level one's actions are purely reactionary
lacking self-awareness, animal instincts are primary
not going along with the mind, free will increases
then higher up, it's surrendered until it ceases
thus, there both is and is not the capacity to choose
even when we do it's limited by one's views
choosing alternatively, with a mind conditioned and bound
free will, then, is at best constrained and drowned — Jarett Sabirsh

She just couldn't face caring for a child all alone.'
'People do it all the time.'
'She wasn't "people", she was herself. She knew what she could handle and what she couldn't. — Octavia E. Butler

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce. — Nick Carter

My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in parenting books is similarly arbitrary. At least I admit it.) — Alfie Kohn