Downshifter 10 Quotes & Sayings

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read. — Paulo Coelho

Happiness moves you forward, but pain keeps you balanced. — Jewel E. Ann

But be it so that public error must have a place in human society, still, in the kingdom of God, we must look and listen only to his eternal truth, against which no series of years, no custom, no conspiracy, can plead prescription. — John Calvin

You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life. — John Dufresne

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden. — Irene Tomkinson

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. — Anatole Broyard

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough. — Brennan Manning

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. — Alfred North Whitehead

Angels exist; sometimes they're your best friend and other times they are someone you met a single time or know only by name, but they are angels just the same. — J.D. Stroube

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Divorce is a game played by lawyers. — Cary Grant

We'd all been taught that, in a circle, there is no beginning, no end. Energy flows without ceasing. One can enter and exit without ever disrupting it. Something magical happens when people gather in a circle. Individual identities swirl into a collective self, which wields far more spiritual force than any one person alone. We — Daniel Black

This quick foray onto the toilet has been no different an endeavor than any other time I've used the restroom in my adult life. Try then to imagine my surprise when instead of the waste going down the u-bend like the thousands of times previous, the bowl's contents go not gentle into that good night.
Instead, they shoot directly up at me ... at approximately 80 miles an hour.
As I leap backward, slamming into the glass shower door, the only thought going through my now-banged head is, When did I eat corn?
Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomanical, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase — Jen Lancaster

It was a lovely sight," said one witness.

"I cannot even begin to describe the beauty of her ascension," said another.

"You kind of did, though," said another witness, who was wearing a fedora. "By saying you cannot describe something, that is a sort of apophasis (a paralipsis, if you will), which gives the mind an implied description through nondescription," he continued. — Joseph Fink