Cultivating Wellness Quotes & Sayings

When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know. — Roy Conli

I concluded that no place in the world was entirely safe for an African, and that for many of us, survival depended on perpetual migration. — Lawrence Hill

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. — Richard Paul Evans

Let us be the waves of infinite love to be infinite in this finite ocean of life. — Debasish Mridha

If we don't help each other, who will? — Barbara Mandrell

Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season. — Sue Wicks

The Crown doesna always pick the wrong man to hang, Sassenach," he said. "More often than not, the man on the end of a rope deserves to be there. And I shouldna like to think I've helped a villain to go free. — Diana Gabaldon

At the Quebec prison, he had read Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, then had autographed the book and given it to a guard for a souvenir. — Erik Larson

In his 1973 "literary investigation," The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn exposed the practices of the Soviet penal system: "If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings, that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (the 'secret brand'); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums. — Donnie Eichar

Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,
Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.
Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes. — Elizabeth Bishop

I forgot how it feel like to have the top of my foot hurt so bad from kicking people on the face ... — Randy Orton

The secret is in realizing your internal gifts and then setting them free. — Bryant McGill