Digne Barca Quotes & Sayings

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths ... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that ... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is ... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up. — Jennifer Donnelly

Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving! — Frederick Lenz

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust. — Rajneesh

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. — George Orwell

There is no external operation of the divine nature which is the work of one Person as distinct from the Others. — Frank Sheed

I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets. — Ottessa Moshfegh

The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You are their God. That is absolutely the truth. Now what are you going to do with this knowledge? — Miguel Ruiz

It's not that I wanted to be dead, I just felt like I should be. Which is why it's hard when everyone expects you to be grateful simply because you're not. — Katja Millay

The main thing is, believe in yourself. Reach out and go after it. — Joanna Garcia

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution — Stephen Nachmanovitch