Elephant Journal Quotes & Sayings

We were just not good enough to play by ourselves. — R.J. Palacio

should be a class in college, Vibrators 101. — Lauren Calhoun

Love is not a victory march — Leonard Cohen

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable. — Thomas Jefferson

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward. — Chuck Palahniuk

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. — Lucretius

So many problems we will get to the bottom of later, but whose spatial aspect we must grasp right away. If the space of the industrial economy dominates the social space in which the Parisian worker or intellectual develops, to what extent could residential space, cultural space, or political space be planned without it being necessary to first intervene in economic structures? ... In short ... : to what extent can we freely build the framework for a social life in which we might be guided by our aspirations and not by our instincts? — Tom McDonough

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters. — Sarah Dessen

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. — Kin Hubbard