Easternmost State Quotes & Sayings

Every challenge we take on has the power to knock us to our knees. But what's even more disconcerting than the jolt itself is our fear that we won't withstand it. When we feel the ground beneath us shifting, we panic. We forget everything we know and allow fear to freeze us. Just the thought of what could happen is enough to throw us off balance. What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. They come with being alive. But I believe these experiences are gifts that force us to step to the right or left in search of a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Let them help you adjust your footing. — Oprah Winfrey

Clammy, stomach clenched, the way she felt when she was about to vomit. Not again. She searched for another light source. A — Brandon Sanderson

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace. — Yo-Yo Ma

But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. 18 — Stephen King

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words. — Suzanne Curchod

To understand yourself, try to understand a flower and then emulate it. — Debasish Mridha

When there is a total understanding of need, the outward and the inner, then desire is not a torture. Then it has a quite different meaning, a significance far beyond the content of thought and it goes beyond feeling, with its emotions, myths and illusions. With the total understanding of need, not the mere quantity or the quality of it, desire then is a flame and not a torture. Without this flame life itself is lost. It is this flame that burns away the pettiness of its object, the frontiers, the fences that have been imposed upon it. Then call it by whatever name you will, love, death, beauty. Then it is there without an end. — Allan W. Anderson

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you. — Martha Beck

The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities. — John F. Kennedy

With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and then the day's over and that piece of film exists somewhere in a vault for 1000,000 years and that's it. — Chris Pine

A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars. — George Sandys