Costopoulos Michigan Quotes & Sayings

Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life. — Geneen Roth

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it. — Katherine Catmull

And what my mother meant when she said you can't eat beauty was that you can't rely on how you look to sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul. — Lupita Nyong'o

The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity ... — Manfred Max-Neef

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. — Oprah Winfrey

Though the little voices cautioned it was time to settle, settle in, settle for, settle down, I muzzled these mutterings. One more love affair before marriage. One more trip before stagnation. One more adventure before I turn in my car keys and close the front door. — Lili Wright

He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow."
It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. — Victor Hugo

He wanted to say a coincidence, but he couldn't make himself believe that. Over the past few years he's seen a lot of things: destiny, prophecy, magic, monsters, fate. But he'd never yet run across a coincidence. — Rick Riordan

You're living life in real time, man, and we' ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. — Ben Harper

If communication is lost everything is lost in a relationship. — Girdhar Joshi

If I were you, I'd clear those cobwebs out because there isn't a shop-vac out there strong enough to handle that job. — Flora Roberts

there is no beauty without some strangeness. — Edgar Allan Poe

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up. — Samantha Power