Cerj Quotes & Sayings

It's like when you're flying in an airplane. Whenever severe turbulence comes along, the seatbelt keeps you from getting thrown around the cabin. Mindful breathing is your seatbelt in everyday life - it keeps you safe here in the present moment. If you know how to breathe, how to sit calmly and quietly, how to do walking meditation, then you have your seatbelt and you're always safe. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. — Robert Englund

A warm, squirming lapful of golden puppy, licking and biting and unabashedly happy, made despair dissolve no matter how hard you were hanging on to it. — Piper Kerman

I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there. — Billy Collins

I just went to the doctor today, I got a chest X-ray of my lungs and discovered that my breasts are uneven. — Jennifer Lawrence

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me. — J.R. Moehringer

The fate of millions of people - indeed the future of the black community itself - may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society. — Michelle Alexander

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality. — Saul Bellow

If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings. — Jessica Brody