Compassionately Celebrating Quotes & Sayings

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare. — Simon Pegg

Sometimes he found himself resenting the others' definition of him, the reductiveness and immovability of it: — Hanya Yanagihara

The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were - sex, race, tax bracket - death leveled it all out. — J.D. Robb

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually. — Edgar Alwin Payne

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil. — Albert Camus

Wait... Wait... wait... you don't know the whole truth you just know a piece of the truth. — Deyth Banger

Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. — Frances Beinecke

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. — John Lubbock

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. — Thomas Jefferson

I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things. — Wendy O. Williams

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen

Self-acceptance is a way of viewing oneself compassionately, without condemnation or justification. It is a starting point in life which makes other things possible. It celebrates the fullness of joy of being alive and of being who we are: accepting ourselves, however, does not mean embracing our neuroses or bad habits and celebrating them as if they were virtues. On the contrary, self-acceptance involves loving ourselves enough to accept painful truths about ourselves ... Self-acceptance is, at its simplest, the experience of one's self, here and now, as a complete human being, with all the glories and problems that condition entails. — Don Richard Riso