Blibbering Humdingers Quotes & Sayings

From all that urges and admonishes, the romantic turns away. He wants to dream, enjoy, immerse himself, instead of clearing his way by striving and wrestling. That which has been and rises out of what is past occupies him far more than what is to become and also more than what wants to become; for the word of the future would always be command. Experiences with their many echoes and their billows stand higher in his estimation than life with its tasks; for tasks always establish a bond with harsh reality. And from this he is in flight. He does not want to struggles against fate, but rather to receive it with an ardent and devout soul; he does not want to wrestle for the blessing, but to experience it, abandoning himself, devoid of will, to what spells salvation and bliss. — Leo Baeck

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys. — Billy Graham

In a wasteland the surface does not represent the actuality of what it is supposed to be representing, and people are living inauthentic lives. "I've never done a thing I wanted to in all my life. I've done as I was told." You know? — Joseph Campbell

Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women. — Helen Fisher

Many a false step was made by standing still. — Timothy Ferriss

It's time for white Christians to be more Christian than white. — Jim Wallis

The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves. — Wayne Muller

I know people like myself where we've got resorts, or we're in the hospitality business, and we just can't make money because you're paying someone minimum $42 per hour or something on a Sunday. — Gerry Harvey

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school. — Hermann Hesse

A bird foraging for food in the swamps and marshes sinks rapidly if it doesn't move. It has to keep pulling its feet out of the mire to move on, regardless of whether it has caught something or not. And the same applies to us and to our love. We have to move on, we can't stay where we are, because we'll sink. — Milorad Pavic

What, what am I to do with all of this life? — Gwendolyn Brooks

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did. — Dana Gould