Carmesia Quotes & Sayings

Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart. — Alan Cohen

If you were to take a plastic bag and place it inside a large bowl, and then, using a wooden spoon, stir the bag around and around the bowl, you could use the expression 'a mixed bag' to describe what you had in front of you, but you would not be using the expression in the same way I am about to use it now. Although 'a mixed bag' sometimes refers to a plastic bag that has been stirred in a bowl, more often it is used to describe a situation that has both good parts and bad parts. An afternoon at a movie theater, for instance, would be a mixed bag if you favourite movie were showing but if you had to eat gravel instead of popcorn. A trip to the zoo would be a very mixed bag if the weather were beautiful, but all the man- and woman-eating lions were running around loose. — Lemony Snicket

When a man sits down in quietness to listen to the teachings of his spirit, many things will come to him in knowledge and understanding. ~ ~ ~ — Roberta Falkner

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. — Thomas Jefferson

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. — Matthew Arnold