Cressbrook Mill Quotes & Sayings

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful. — Bernie Siegel

The proper experience in life [890] is to have a dream of Christ as the heavenly ladder which has been set up on earth and which brings us into heaven. Do not try to overcome sin, nor to conquer your weakness. When you touch this ladder, you will be in heaven, heaven will be yours, and there will be much traffic between earth and heaven and between heaven and earth. You will have whatever you need, and every negative thing will be under your feet. This is the experience of Christ as the heavenly ladder. — Witness Lee

When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence. — Anthony De Mello

Tie rock to tail and throw kitty in
lake. Watch kitty sink, ha! — Julie Kagawa

Be as you wish to seem. — Socrates

Merely according to reason, nothing is just in itself, everything shifts with time. Custom is the whole of equity for the sole reason that it is accepted. — Blaise Pascal

He shifted his arm so he could brush her hair back. His fingers lingered along her jaw. "You make me want to live, too, Aelin Galathynius," he said. "Not exist - but live." He cupped her cheek, and took a steadying breath - as if he'd thought about every word these past three days, over and over again. "I spent centuries wandering the world, from empires to kingdoms to wastelands, never settling, never stopping - not for one moment. I was always looking toward the horizon, always wondering what waited across the next ocean, over the next mountain. But I think ... I think that whole time, all those centuries, I was just looking for you. — Sarah J. Maas

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything. — Shania Twain

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business. — Jimmy Carter

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing. — Rosie Perez

Laughter is much better than anger. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Cressbrook Mill was operated mostly by orphans who were treated worse than abysmally. — Bill Bryson

One must educate oneself — Marjane Satrapi

I wished upon a star and the heavens sent me you — Sonya Watson