Clarices Pieces Quotes & Sayings

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now. — Aung San Suu Kyi

It was my own human mind. I needed to understand it. Why? It's the writer's landscape. Imagine that a painter has that wild animal to capture on canvas: arresting its fangs, the raging color of its eyes, the blue of it's hump, the flash of its hoofs, the rugged shadow that it casts. We writers have that beast inside us: how we feel, think, hope, dream, perceive. — Natalie Goldberg

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up. — Pink

You may not have spent years meditating or received instruction from all the best teachers in all the various philosophical schools. That does not mean you can't open your heart to the world and make a difference. You don't have to wait until you're enlightened. You don't have to ask anyone's permission. You just have to offer yourself, as you are, and allow your vulnerable heart to transform the world. — Lodro Rinzler

These albums were thick with babies, but my replicas thinned out as I grew older, as if the population of my duplicates had been hit with some plague. — Margaret Atwood

One had to breathe consciously and deliberately, which, though disconcerting at first, induced after a time an almost ecstatic tranquility of mind. The whole body moved in a single rhythm of breathing, walking, and thinking, the lungs, no longer discrete and automatic, were disciplined to harmony with mind and limb. — James Hilton

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head. — Novak Djokovic

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten? — Robert Anton Wilson

There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can't get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives. — Pema Chodron