Dhones Portela Quotes & Sayings

D.L Sparks author of All That Glitters. — Angel Mechelle

The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whipping post.
-Silk — David Eddings

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that. — Justin Bieber

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering. — Matthieu Ricard

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known. — May Sinclair

My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere! — Axel Munthe

The person you are when no one's looking, or when no one else knows who you are ... that's the person you really are! — Dori Hillestad Butler

There's something comforting in that. To go down as a family. No one left behind. — Gayle Forman

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349 — Oscar Wilde

There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss. — John Steinbeck

What are any of our lives but the shapes we force them into. Memory doesn't come to us of its own; we go after it, pull it into sunlight and make of it what we need, what we're driven towards, what we imagine, changing the world again and again with each new quarry, each descent, each morning. — James Sallis

I realized that with everything I did from that point onward, I would have to ask myself this question: "How would I feel if what I'm doing right now is written up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or if it is on television? Would I still do it?" That is a very useful exercise for leaders to engage in, because we shouldn't do anything we might be embarrassed by or ashamed of. — John E. Mackey

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men. — Annie Besant

I'm not going to say it was love at first sight. No, it was more like oh, hell-yes-please, I'll have that. With a helping of right-the-fuck-now on the side. — Kristen Callihan