Brookledge Follies Quotes & Sayings

Often, we get crushes on others not because we truly love and understand them, but to distract ourselves from our suffering. When we learn to love and understand ourselves and have true compassion for ourselves, then we can truly love and understand another person. — Thich Nhat Hanh

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. — George Bernard Shaw

When you have both eyes closed to the world, a third eye opens in your heart. — Elif Shafak

It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over. — Joseph Conrad

When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys. — Nicole Eggert

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize. — Tiger Woods

Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the twentieth century - in which an hubristic ideology runs aground on enduring human needs that it has failed to comprehend. — John Gray

I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance. — Steve Maraboli

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens. — David Lynch

I am the son of a murdered woman - anybody who'd call my books misogynistic is, frankly, out of their fucking mind.
— James Ellroy

There are at bottom but two possible religions
that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe. — James Anthony Froude

Research shows that women incur social costs for advocating for themselves too strongly; they are seen as less likable by those around them, especially by other women. — Tara Mohr