Edeltraud Laurin Quotes & Sayings

The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses the heartbreak within. A deal that seems to be the price we pay for getting to hold on to our beloved dead. — Gail Caldwell

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good. — Michael Gruber

When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy. — Mark Miller

Dear child, I am about to make a long journey, so take into thy keeping the keys of the thirteen doors of heaven. Twelve of these thou mayest open, and behold the glory which is within them, but the thirteenth, to which this little key belongs, is forbidden thee. Beware of opening it, or thou wilt bring misery on thyself. — Jacob Grimm

I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids. — Lucia Berlin

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class. — Stephen King

You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness. — Joyce Carol Oates

Wisdom is precious because of the price we pay for it. — Jody Day

Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go! — Dr. Seuss

What if . . . What if I am stupid? Like people say? — Svetlana Chmakova

To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit — Sunday Adelaja

I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around. — Charles Mingus