Declan Sunstein Quotes & Sayings

Occasionally I am smitten with an acute case of Smug. It can happen to anyone, but it happens most often to people who think they've been especially clever. — Kevin Hearne

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you. — Lisa Wingate

An elegant mechanism emerges: a broken symmetry, hidden from our view by a field pervading space. — Sean Carroll

Lisbon Taxi,' a woman said, 'where the mileage is always smileage. How may we help you today? — Stephen King

Schopenhauer has a metaphor for human closeness. He writes about cold porcupines who have to snuggle up to keep warm, but if they snuggle too close they stab each other with their quills. A crowd of porcupines is constantly, uncomfortably assessing the safety of proximity. — Brenda Walker

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore. — Ernest Hemingway,

Get down,' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.) — Kate Atkinson

If you can't regulate your own emotional temperature, you'll regulate everyone around you to keep yourself comfortable. — David Schnarch

Misplaced effort in the spiritual life often consists in stubbornly insisting upon compulsive routines which seem to us to be necessary because they accord with our own short-sighted notions. — Thomas Merton

I didn't think it was possible to love him more than I already did, but i was wrong. His arms are the only place where I find peace and comfort. I feel safe when they're around me, like nothing can get to me. — Alison G. Bailey

Time renders all people and all things silent. And gods, it seems, are no exception. — Robert Jackson Bennett