Daubney Lincolnshire Quotes & Sayings

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [ ... ] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. — Anne Lamott

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky. — James Montgomery

And last of all comes death. — Anacreon

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix. — Edith Pargeter

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. — W. Clement Stone

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love. — Rumi

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician. — Tupac Shakur

The only time you start at the top is when you're digging a hole. — Sam Chand

In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live. We take fortuitous resemblances among us to be actual likeness, because those around us have also fallen heir to the same customs, trade in the same coin, acknowledge, more or less, the same notions of decency and sanity. But all that really just allows us to coexist with the inviolable, intraversable, and utterly vast spaces between us. — Marilynne Robinson

And still, even from the cells of the condemned, the message was going out: the class war was still on in that supposedly classless society, the United States. — Howard Zinn

There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind — Kevin Cowdall

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it. — Stephen Leacock