Ebel Furniture Quotes & Sayings

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school. — Colin Powell

There's really no avoiding the fact that suffering is part of life. And of course we have a natural tendency to dislike our suffering and problems. But I think that ordinarily people don't view the very nature of our existence to be characterized by suffering ..." The Dalai Lama suddenly began to laugh, "I mean on your birthday people usually say, 'Happy Birthday!,' when actually the day of your birth was the birth of your suffering. But nobody says, 'Happy Birth-of-Sufferingday!" he joked. — Dalai Lama XIV

When bad things happen, part of us might go away. It's a survival technique. You can't stand to be around when there's so much grief or pain in your life so part of you goes away. Shamans call this soul loss. — Robert Moss

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free. — Fernando Pessoa

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. — William Blake

Fuck buddies don't have rules. It's like being in a fight club. The first rule of fuck buddies is ... there are no rules. I was making this up as I went along. I had no idea if fuck buddies had rules. I'd never had a fuck buddy. I'd never even wanted one. Hell, I didn't want one now! — Kristen Ashley

It came to her, all of a sudden, the words he'd said to her in Lance's house.
If I'm hurt, you must be very careful. No, Tana, you must listen. You must be careful of me.
He hadn't been worried he was going to get hurt. He'd been worried that he was going to hurt someone else. — Holly Black

I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle's inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders. In — Anthony Doerr

It had been weeks since anyone had even tried to kill him. As long as someone was trying to kill you, you knew you were important. — Cinda Williams Chima

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself. — Sigmund Freud

Most people live life backwards. They party and kill time in their youth, when they're strong and have the energy to accomplish great things. And then they're older, they try to get things done, but they have less energy and enthusiasm by that time. — Jarod Kintz

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron. — Ted Rall

It's not that I'm weak, it's that I'm scared of most things. — Dan Bergstein