Conavigua Guatemala Quotes & Sayings

At some point, it's time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional eating in nothing but bolting from multiple versions of the above: the obsession will stop when the bolting stops. And at that point, we might answer, as spiritual teacher Catherine Ingram did, when someone asked how she allowed herself to tolerate deep sorrow, I live among the brokenhearted. They allow it. — Geneen Roth

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once. — Milarepa

But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases. — Marc Chagall

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done. — Max Lucado

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Bible's Song of Solomon, "Love is strong as death." Or perhaps even stronger. — Esther Earl

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people. — Matt Corby

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. — Thomas De Quincey

I once knew this cellist, Miss Browning,
A swan with whom I enjoyed clowning.
But at night when she bloomed
I felt blissfully doomed.
Far from shore, in danger of drowning. — Julia Glass

Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land — Ruta Sepetys

So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from the first moment to the last. — H.G.Wells

Two big punchers, you've got to keep your chin down, keep your defense up, don't be careless or open, box sensibly, control the centre of the ring and when he lets his punches go, believe me he's gonna know all about it. — Joe Calzaghe

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered. — Robert Louis Stevenson