Caylan Quotes & Sayings

Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind. — Rajneesh

... Wickard's novel colorfully illuminates the two sychronized protagonists, each displaying profound characteristics: Sami has trouble adjusting to her new life and Smitty balances his secret life with his normal one, with a (living) wife and infant daughter at home...

... assertive characters with distinct backgrounds provide a solid fountaion for the story of a killer on the hunt."

Kirkus Review February 24, 2012 — Douglas Wickard

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration. — Mark Twain

We have to take flight. It's not given to us, served up on a pretty, parsley-bordered platter. We have to take wing. Was I brave enough to do that? Or would I be content to remain earthbound? — Elizabeth J. Church

Austerity pleased her - it gave her the comfort of sacrifice. — John Le Carre

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone). — Amy Dickinson

Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do.
We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation. — Seth Godin

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.
People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. — Terry Pratchett

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience. — Bob McNair

Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art. — Walter Martin

The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off. — Fern Schumer Chapman

Murray Harris has observed: One of the classic Christian paradoxes is that freedom leads to slavery and slavery leads to freedom. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better. — Dalai Lama