Calligraphic Flourishes Quotes & Sayings

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable." — Anthony De Mello

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power. — William Hazlitt

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking. — Ronda Rousey

You can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of the mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten. — Marilynne Robinson

How could one help being nervous in this mind-expanding universe, in which the emerging universe would threaten to change unrecognizably in the course of a generation? How could one avoid the ambient fear of all the noise and speed and light and steam? Humans had never been exposed to such phenomona; they had not learned yet to tolerate them. — Michelle Stacey

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one. — Bill Gothard

You know, 'help me, Sophie Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope — Rachel Hawkins

You can do a lot and you can partner with great minds to do so much more. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress. — Seneca The Younger

June was white. I see the fields white with daisies, and white with dresses; and tennis courts marked with white. Then there was wind and violent thunder. There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, "Consume me". That was at midsummer. — Virginia Woolf

Don't cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions — Anne Rice

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. — Scott Adams

Remember that day I made you the elevator?" he suddenly asks.

I give him a faint smile. "How could I forget?"

"That was the day I had my first kiss."

My smile fades.

"I'm better now," He sets the apple beside me. "At kissing, just so you know. — Stephanie Perkins

Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life's secrets. It's the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. 'We are too ego-centered,' Suzuki tells Cage.' The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away. — Kay Larson

The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea. — Rhian Ellis