Chinese New Year 2016 Quotes & Sayings

With all their sharpness and being pointy - their sole purpose was to stab you. — Jessica Sorensen

Encouragement is the engine of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need — Thomas Merton

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do. — Frank Frazetta

Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things. — Avi

I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives - those fountains of inconvenient feeling - and toward the frantic enticements of what our friends in the Greed Business call the Free Market. We're hurtling through time and space and information faster and faster, seeking that network connection. But at the same time we're falling away from our families and our neighbors and ourselves. We ego-surf and update our status and brush up on which celebrities are ruining themselves, and how. But the cure won't stick. — Cheryl Strayed

Suddenly I felt like a bona fide man-eater. A Slutasaurus rex. — Christina Lee

I'll have what she's having — Nora Ephron

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. — Annie Dillard

Only the dead have seen the end of war. — Plato

Building houses and mansion ranching is not ranching. — Jon Tester