Eleanor Maccoby Quotes & Sayings

Love was sacrificing your selfish nature for someone you were more committed to than yourself — Tarryn Fisher

The best parent, the best sibling, the best friend and even God are more interested in being with you, than above you, — Sarah Young

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

The absence of God is nothing more than the absence of me. — Lionel Suggs

The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay. — Michael Hudson

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling. — Fran Lebowitz

You cannot "catch" anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it. — Rhonda Byrne

the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast. — Marian Engel

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing. — Alfred Hitchcock

In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe — Jenny Han

I believe the books we write are the dreams we couldn't find on the bookshelves... — Ty Zeiter