Caroleasylife Quotes & Sayings

Mhisery realized at that moment, her father was so far gone into alcoholism the bottle had become his lover - and Avery Bellemy was nothing if not faithful to his partner. He cherished the bottle above his family, above his business, above his good name, and well above his own health. Her father was now pouring all the love he had felt for their mother into a bottle — Shyloh Morgan

I am optimistic about the future of music. — George Crumb

[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. — Dennis Prager

You are here to experience life, not to escape from it. — Stuart Wilde

For to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy. — Salman Rushdie

Be willing to sacrifice everything. Detach from everything to be willing to become more than you THINK that you are. To live differently. — Matthew Donnelly

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth. — Ward Churchill

Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. — Frederick Locker-Lampson

These words [of Romans 12:1-2] are overflowingly rich in consolation; for just then when afflictions come over us, we should be of good courage, because that is the good will of God. Therefore we should be greatly pleased when things happen to us which displease us. The "good" will of God creates good out of evil. The "acceptable" will of God moves us cheerfully to love such good. It makes this good acceptable to us, and causes us to agree with it, even if it is evil. The "perfect" will of God will eternally perfect and bring to a[n] end all who are glad. — Martin Luther

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer. — Arthur Guiterman

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else. — John C. Maxwell