Edwarta Quotes & Sayings

Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together. — Pema Chodron

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things.
For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities.
But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds? — Kij Johnson

Jamie : "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me.". Landon : "Including me?". Jamie : "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!". — Nicholas Sparks

Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within. — Terry Taylor

You ought to take more chances," I said.
"I took too many earlier," she said. "I'm sorry. — Larry McMurtry

There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due. — Lyudmila Ulitskaya

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform. — Graydon Carter

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought. — Ayn Rand

I see Kayla dragged you into this."
I smiled at him. "No, sir, I just came to borrow a cup of sugar."
"Heh. — Ilona Andrews

Israel was God's chosen people, the nation whose God was the Lord. This unique status has not passed to America or to any other earthly nation. — Michael Babcock

You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget. — Mina Bissell

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings. — Jeremy Taylor

They couldn't understand that every time I entered the slum I felt the urge to let go and surrender to a simpler, poorer life that was yet richer in respect, and love, and a vicinal connectedness to the surrounding sea of human hearts. They couldn't understand what I meant when I talked about the purity of the slum: they'd been there, and seen the wretchedness and filth for themselves. They saw no purity. But they hadn't lived in those miraculous acres, and they hadn't learned that to survive in such a writhe of hope and sorrow the people had to be scrupulously and heartbreakingly honest. That was the source of their purity: above all things, they were true to themselves. — Gregory David Roberts

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. — Aeschylus