Diamonds Pinterest Quotes & Sayings

The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls. — Harold S. Kushner

This edition is based on Orwell's typescript of November 1948, amended according to his proof corrections and taking in a few readings that are deemed to be his from the American first edition. — George Orwell

I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry
but poems flare in my heart — Ikkyu

By turning herself into a fucking machine, she has created a kind of temporary grid. But underneath, in the place of dream and feeling, she is going places that she, on the surface, would not understand. — Mary Gaitskill

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies. — John Cleese

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed! — Herbert Hoover

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory. — David McCullough

Religions do not teach doubt. — Gregory Benford

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. — Graham Greene

Buddha said, 'Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.' Do — Camron Wright

Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know every bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Mistakes are so interesting. Here's a wonderful mistake. Let's see what we can learn from it. — Carol S. Dweck

We hurt ourselves when we give our time, the minutes of our life span, to pursuits that don't match our own values. — Anne Katherine

You're a real firecracker, Astrid, aren't you? Firecracker is what people in certain social circles say when what they really mean is asshole. — David Iserson