Batim Henry Quotes & Sayings

Consider that the earth is a processing plant, a factory. Picture a tumbler used to polish rocks: a rolling drum filled with water and sand. Consider that your soul is dropped in as an ugly rock, some raw mineral or natural resource, crude oil, mineral ore. And all conflict and pain is the abrasive that rubs us, polishes our soul, refines us, teaches and finishes us over lifetime after lifetime. — Chuck Palahniuk

He admired her surety. She knew her own worth and did not pretend otherwise for those who judged her on her parentage. But by refusing to tolerate fools and play nice, she'd condemned herself to a solitary path, both in defeat and in victory. — Sherry Thomas

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. — Eustace Budgell

She'll be waiting for me. Never before had he wanted immortality so badly. — Michael R. Fletcher

'Hatching Pete' was so much fun. Mitchel Musso and Jason Dolley, as well as Josie Loren, who was also in '17 Again' with Sterling and Zac Efron and Matthew Perry are in it. We just had a blast filming. — Tiffany Thornton

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them. — Joseph Joubert

The first step toward a genuine theory of consciousness, I believe, is the realization that consciousness is not located in the organism. Rather, consciousness is a four-quadrant affair, and it exists, if it exists at all, distributed across all four quadrants, anchored equally in each.12 — Ken Wilber