Barcena Mayor Quotes & Sayings

Practice being fully present with something. Perhaps you may find something of God there. Go outside and look at the stars. Not for just a few seconds - lay a blanket in the yard, lie on your back and really look at the stars. Try to let your heart feel the incomprehensible size and grandeur of the universe. Take the time to really attend to a meal, a good book, a piece of music, or a sunrise. The point is to be fully present, to not be swept up into the distraction of a thousand voices, but to learn how to simply and fully attend to one. Then, when one enters back into the noisy world that we live in, even the million colors together are more vibrant because you have learned to better see color in its essence. To truly see is to find hope. — Michael Gungor

Then I get worried that if anyone is really paying attention to Happy's predilections, they might become wary of his wholesale compassion and suspect him of being an imaginary character, created by a journalist, to trick businesses into inadvertently revealing their data-trafficking practices. So I untick tigers. — Jon Ronson

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin. — Roseanne Barr

Finnie kicked a packet of washing powder. "Why am I surrounded by morons? Did I tick the wrong bloody box for room service? I wanted scrambled eggs on toast, but they delivered a family-sized bag of idiots! — Stuart MacBride

Feeling are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there. — Meg Rosoff

Remorse is the fruit of crime. — Juvenal

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does. — Ron Suskind

I'm very into Taylor Swift. From her music to her wardrobe, she is absolutely killing it. Also, she has adorable cats that I would love to pet. — Connor Franta

Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it. — Frederick Buechner

Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat. — Paulo Coelho

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food — Guy De Maupassant

The chill lowered my defenses, and I caught a fever. A fever to understand. — Francine Prose

I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to. — Bonnie McKee