Crisner Quotes & Sayings

After everything, what we have left is not what we make to have a living but what we make out of living. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

Life is a mere reflection of how you see it. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

The shame-based person is nearly always enmeshed in some way with one or more people. While we are in a dysfunctional, shame-based relationship, we may f eel like we are losing our mind, going crazy. When we try to test reality, we are unable to trust our senses, our feelings and our reactions. — Charles L. Whitfield

It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

For anyone who feels lost in their own way, going back to who you are and what you love or moving forward to whoever you are meant to be or meant to love, is the purpose of being lost. We lose ourselves, so we can find out who we truly are. And when by fate we do, we discover the best version of ourselves. — Joanne Crisner

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition. — Anna Kendrick

We are basically in the nicotine business ... Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage. — R. J. Reynolds

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically. — Richard Dawkins

The minute you think you have the right to belittle others because you think you're better than them is the same minute you've proven you're worse. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

No matter how harsh or negative your thoughts are, there is always a right way of saying them. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

Long before we even lose our lives, we lose our souls. Tragic but true. Some carry on - willing to make the sacrifices, putting what is perceived as important before anything else. Some tread into the dark - wasting moments of grace, letting themselves suffer from their own decisions or the other's domination. Some continue to love, give too much, and not leave even a little love for themselves. — Joanne Crisner

The protagonist, Amanda, discusses her sex relationship with her husband, John Paul
As long as it's done with honesty and grace, John Paul doesn't mind if I go to bed with other men. Or with other girls, as is sometimes my fancy. What has marriage got to do with it? Marriage is not a synonym for monogamy any more than monogamy is a synonym for ideal love. To live lightly on the earth, lovers and families must be more flexible and relaxed. The ritual of sex releases its magic inside or outside the marital bond. I approach that ritual with as much humility as possible and perform it whenever it seems appropriate. As for John Paul and me, a strange spurt of semen is not going to wash our love away. — Tom Robbins

I like the creative aspect of developing a project. — Priscilla Presley

What is this sleep which holds you now?
You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me. — The Epic Of Gilgamesh

In the middle of this journey, we lose a bit of ourselves. We do not know where we are or where we're headed. We look for directions, seek for guidance, and if we're lucky, we find it without too much time lost. And if we're truly lucky, we gain our whole selves back, with an ounce of wisdom on top. — Joanne Crisner

Love always turns out to be worth everything. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

We lose our soul, to find our life. — Joanne Crisner

I'm not the first to want what I can't have, but my problem runs irreparably darker than that. My dark lust can't be sated by normal means, or even slightly less-than-normal means. Role playing and dominant games with their bullshit negotiations and imposed limits don't do it for me. — Skye Callahan

Most people know that when we are faced with an immediate perceived "threat," adrenaline kicks in and we experience the "fight or flight syndrome".
Well, the brain also works the same at higher levels of processing. When we perceive a "crisis", even if we have time to think about it, our brain will perceive it as a "danger" or as an "opportunity". And ... we will act accordingly. And ... we will have an outcome based on that perception- danger or opportunity. I try to choose "opportunity" every time. — Jose N. Harris

Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

It's such a wonder how people can diminish the worth of your relationship. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

Climb up the ladder one step at a time, moving gracefully to the rhythm of your own heart.
- from the essay, On The Side of Time, Amazed. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

Whatever hurt you felt is not an excuse to inflict the same on others. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir

Time can be misconstrued in so many ways, but its importance should never be underestimated. It is with this that I decided to not chase after time but to silently, gently, deliberately make it count. One day at a time ...
... We have to creatively use time to make a moment that matters. Every single day.
Joanne Crisner Alcayaga, Amazed — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

Ultimately, who you are as a person will define who you are as a professional. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?' — Mary Roach

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal. — Reese Witherspoon

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live. — Martin Luther King Jr.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up. — Ruth Wilson

Giving up also takes courage. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

For men do easily part with their prince upon hopes of bettering their condition, and that hope provokes them to rebel; but most commonly they are mistaken, and experience tells them their condition is much worse. — Niccolo Machiavelli