Dominic Thiem Quotes & Sayings

In the second half of life, our old compasses no longer work. The magnetic fields alter. The new compass that we need cannot be held in our hand, only in our heart. We read it not with our mind alone, but with our soul.

Now we yearn for wholeness. We yearn to remember the parts of ourselves that we have forgotten, to nourish those that we have starved, to express those we have silenced, and to bring into the light those we have cast into the shadows. On this quest for wholeness, we must let go of cliches of adult life, both positive and negative . . . Using the best information available , each of us must find his own way.

To varying degrees, all of us are trying to break out of . . . the "life structure" that we have built during the first part of our lives. — Mark Gerzon

Wisdom is found in the heart not the head. — Pierce Brown

I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs. — Benmont Tench

When people misuse a text with "Did God really say...?" to shut down someone's honest wrestling with God, they betray what seems to be their own lack of faith and humility. We ought not to be threatened by someone's searching. We ought not to try to control the outcomes in another's journey. We ought not to resort to using shame or fear or guilt to ensure others share our certainties. God can be trusted to lead those who question and struggle through prayer, his Word, their minds, and their experiences. Let's focus on encouraging one another rather than accusing and condemning one another. — Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath ... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach. — Hippocrates

Sometimes, when I'm teaching, when I interject a comment without anyone calling on me, without caring that I just spoke a moment before, or when I interrupt someone to redirect the conversation away from an eddy I personally find fruitless, I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep. It's — Maggie Nelson

And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever. — Walter Savage Landor

Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him. — John Ciardi

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image. — Bernard Manning

When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead. — Herbert Achternbusch

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. — Gustave Flaubert

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge? — Alice James

Innovation no longer remains a choice but has become an imperative. — Narendra Modi

I wish for a life so brave, so unpredictable, so full of unexpected joys and unforgettable love that no box could possibly contain all my memories. — Chelsey Philpot