Darne Quotes & Sayings

Never separate your mind from your heart when making relationship decisions. The purpose of the mind is to protect the heart. — Kevin Darne

The world may not owe you anything but you owe yourself the world! — Kevin Darne

Others believe in prayer ... have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? Let it be the root of your Gospel. Oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking"; by it the female obtains much from man. — Austin Osman Spare

Many people have failing relationships because they have not really fallen in love with each other, but they have fallen for the mental images they have created of one another. We assume we know our partner, we think about them nonstop, creating many different ideas of who they are, what they like, and how we will be together, then as soon as our partner does something that doesn't fit with our mental image of them, we become sad, upset, confused, or heart broken. Our partner did not cause our suffering; we caused it, through our false perceptions and mental images. — Joseph P. Kauffman

And I want the heart. I do. I don't care if it's black with despair and riddled with rot. I'd live inside the bits of him that are barely functioning, if I could. I'd spend the rest of my days trying to piece him back together, if he'd let me. — Charlotte Stein

Government exists only for the good of the governed. — Pythagoras

There is no amount of communication or work that can overcome being with someone who does not want what you want. — Kevin Darne

There are only two ways to experience joy and peace of mind in relationships; we either get what we want or we learn to be happy with what we have. — Kevin Darne

It was not easy being a soldier, but we just had to do it. I have been rehabilitated now, so don't be afraid of me. I am not a soldier anymore; I am a child. — Ishmael Beah

People scared Petra - they were volatile, unpredictable. But the natural world could always be explained. It behaved according to established laws that didn't change. Petra could play by those rules. — Laura Bickle

Don't expect to sit next to the moon unless you are a star! — Kevin Darne

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about. — Etta James

When my time comes, promise me that you'll keep on dancing, Sandra demanded. — Melody Anne

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky. — Suzy Menkes

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note. — Steve Albini

If someone believes you are worth the effort they will make the effort. — Kevin Darne