Berkshires Massachusetts Quotes & Sayings

One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love ... — Alain De Botton

Now try writing some pages to serve as later notes. Because you're not yet sure of voice or anything else, you're free from the need to squash in all manner of background information, explaining what year it is, etc. That stuff will just get you back in your head and drive you nuts. You're free to write as if all that stuff is in the reader's head already. It will be, by the time you get to this part of the book. You — Mary Karr

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics. — Bill W.

In my typical way, I declined to respond, saying that I didn't want anyone to run to a store just because I endorsed a trend. Besides, a trend is good only if it works for you, your wardrobe, and your lifestyle. — Tim Gunn

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement. — Michele Cassou

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Everybody underestimates the kick to the groin. — Bas Rutten

The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars. — Frederick Lenz

Learning to let go, to put the team's will first, is an empowering experience that leads to the most wonderful of all experiences: being a member of a high-performing, gungho, high-five team. Remember, leadership is not all about you. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism ... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings. — Chittaranjan Das

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves. — Laini Taylor