Quotes & Sayings About Crazy Nights With Friends

I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'. — Ann Voskamp

They could stay in Iowa. Lots of people do that. Millions of them, like four million of them, stay in Iowa, year after year. — Dean Bakopoulos

Once randomly aggressive behavior gets started in an organization, it tends to be contagious, rapidly spreading itself because of a built-in mammalian device for relieving stress, called redirected aggression. Stanford physiologist Robert Sapolsky describes it this way:"Numerous psychoendocrine studies show that in a stressful or frustrating circumstance, the magnitude of the subsequent stress-response is decreased if the organism is provided with an outlet for frustration. For example, the [glucocorticoid] secretion triggered by electric shock in a rat is diminished if the rat is provided with a bar of wood to gnaw on, a running wheel, or, as one of the most effective outlets, access to another rat to bite. — Richard Conniff

I sank into the chair and checked to see if the charge nurse could see me - not if I didn't lean out too far. The night was looking up! Two patients who ought to sleep all night long, and an Internet connection. How lucky was I? Pretty damn lucky, at least until someone needed a diaper change. — Cassie Alexander

We don't need school to be better, we need schools to be really, really different. — Will Richardson

Because life is very small, you can never see it happening. Have you ever seen a tree actually grow? Can you see a child grow? Growth is too gentle, too tender. Life is basically hidden. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience. — Eknath Easwaran

He was her creation. From the moment they met when he wobbled onto the ice at the age of ten and refused to leave until he had learned his first jump, they could see into each others souls. Now when it counted most, there was a wall between them. — Lisa Luciano

Without the personal traumas, tribulations and 'terribles' that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn't have gained the information necessary to write this book and my life would never have taken the course it has. — Emma James

Oh, Brother. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. — Sarah Kay

Daemon: I have something really corny to say. Get ready for it.
Katy: I'm ready.
Daemon: I'm mental for you. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you. — Joan Rivers

Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight. — Ingrid Weir

Now I will tell you a true thing, child, and if you are wise you will remember it. The soul, it longs for its mate as much as the body. Sad it is that the body be greedier than the soul. But if you would be happy all your days, as I was with your grandfather, subdue the body and marry the soul. Look for a soul-and-heart love. — Martine Leavitt