Dibrova Diary Quotes & Sayings

Who is wise in love, love most, say least. — Alfred Tennyson

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard. — Shannen Doherty

Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude. — Swami Satchidananda

I am still clumsy; I should aim to be clumsy only when I wish to be. I must learn to keep silent ... I must learn to take myself seriously; and not to hold any smug opinion of myself. To have more mobile eyes and a less mobile face. To keep a straight face when I make a joke. Not to applaud every joke made by others. Not to show the same colorless geniality toward everyone. To disconcert at the right moment by keeping a poker face. Especially never to praise two people in the same way, but rather to keep toward each individual a distinct manner from which I would never deviate without intending to. — Andre Gide

Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it ... I didn't invent anything, I indicated. — Annette Messager

Whereas in Europe new ideas were forced to compete against other doctrines and attitudes, with the results that people tended towards healthy skepticism about claims to absolute truth, and a climate of pluralism developed, In Russia there was a cultural void. The censor forbade all political expression, so that when ideas were introduced there they easily assumed the status of holy dogma, a panacea for all the world's ills, beyond questioning or indeed the need to test them in real life. — Orlando Figes

God was beyond faithful, always, all the time. — Karen Kingsbury

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know. — Susan Orlean

Accidents happen. I will, um ... I will pay to have your house rebuilt."
"And my barn?" a woman called out.
Liam sighed. "Yes, and your barn, too."
"And my golden carousel?" shouted another man. "Will you pay for that?"
Liam raised an eyebrow. "The giant smashed your golden carousel?"
"No," said the man. "I'd just like to have a golden carousel. — Christopher Healy

Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her. — J.R. Miller

Sometimes when life seems to place your back against the wall
It's then that you realize you are in the deepest recesses of His heart
Therefore all is well — Louis

Mum said I'd learn betrayals came in various shapes and sizes, but to betray someone's dream is the unforgivable one. — David Mitchell

The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim. — David Ignatius

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. — Daniel Goleman