Chonda Quotes & Sayings

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it - just as though one were in a madhouse or prison. — Anton Chekhov

You don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. — Libba Bray

Believe in what makes you Healthy, because everything else is just garbage. — Gary Hopkins

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail — Carl Jung

To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?" — Evo Morales

Seyyed Hassan Modarres: "However good the guarddog is, it stops being useful the moment it bites the hands of its master's child, and must be banished — Christopher De Bellaigue

I don't write poems
to melt your heart.
I write them,
so our hearts
can melt together. — Subhan Zein

You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me. — Francesca Lia Block

All significant battles are fought within self. — Sheldon B. Kopp

I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave. — Joan Crawford

Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest." - PSALM 55:6 — Chonda Pierce

Pain is essential for survival, pain is the tangible material that creeps into our mind and screams at us to recognize that something is terribly wrong. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ... — Jane Hirshfield