Blessedness Of Possessing Quotes & Sayings

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free. — Oprah Winfrey

I was doing what I have done for most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves. — Elizabeth Strout

Of course, the books you read early, before 20, and love passionately, they get to you. Even if later on you can't read them again. You were shaped by certain books. All of us that read a lot, we're partly book-manufactured. It's really hard to talk about the influence of such books on you because it goes so deep. It's like, what was your father's influence on you, what was your mother's influence. How can you say? You grew up with it. So, you will find I dodge all questions about favorite books and so on. What does it matter what I like? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember. — Alexander Wang

Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning war-how it affected the hand that pulled it out of the oven, the hand that kneaded the dough, how war impinged upon the field where wheat was grown. — Nadeem Aslam

If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see? — Anja Owona Okoa

She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be faced. — John Connolly

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance. — Thomas A Kempis

Look ma'am, those narcos that mutilate, torture, and kill others are no longer a part of us. They're no longer part of any family or community; they act against everyone. They are worth nothing. But when you bury a narco, you allow him to be a part of you again. He becomes dust, food, our brother once more. His body - dissolved in the earth - now sustains life again, instead of destroying it. — Laura Esquivel

My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying! — Stephen Richards