Chapbook Press Quotes & Sayings

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

There's a Chinese saying: "The first part that rots is the head." It really does. I've seen it. — Thomas Bidegain

Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges. — Catherynne M Valente

God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself. — Brad Brown

Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom. — Amrita Pritam

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. — Mary Shelley

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less. — Nhat Hanh

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend. — Diogenes Laertius

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels. — Ingvar Kamprad

Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that "I am" is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite. — Deepak Chopra

I'd like to go back to five years old again. Just sometimes. To be turning over rocks and looking for pill bugs and holding earthworms, playing dolls, erecting forts, digging through dirt for marbles, burrowing in leaf piles, failing at igloo building, when my biggest concern was going to sleep with the lights off. I wish I was five again, before things got hard, before I was forced to grow up way too early and been stuck in this "adult" thing way too long. I wish I could sit in my Grandpa's lap and let him sing me crazy Irish songs and go over the names of the planets. "Gwampa, tell me about Outer Space." ... "Gwampa, sing the Swimming Song."
I wish I could go back there, just for a little while, and pick raspberries by myself in the sun and find secret hideaways and not hurt, not worry, not carry the heavy things. If I could be five years old ... just for a few minutes. Remember what it felt like to be free. That would be something. — Jennifer DeLucy

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living. — Neale Donald Walsch