Byttneria Quotes & Sayings

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections ... [those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty, ... have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all. — Emma Goldman

I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now ... if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period. — Jodi Picoult

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together. — John Lahr

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. — Homer

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less. — Crystal Woods

To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence. — Flannery O'Connor

It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation. — Jack Kornfield

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead