Elin Kelsey Quotes & Sayings

Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that. — Kabir

How great is the frailty of human nature which is ever prone to evil! Today you confess your sins and tomorrow you again commit the sins which you confessed. — Thomas A Kempis

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it. -Jonah Griggs — Melina Marchetta

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? — Khalil Gibran

May all that have life be delivered from suffering — Gautama Buddha

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets. — Alastair Reynolds

We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception. — Kris Carr

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries? — Joseph Addison

But now, everything I once thought I liked about myself has been turned into a symptom of something wrong with me. I'm told over and over by addiction experts not to trust anything I say, think, or feel. They tell me I need to build self-esteem from within. Yet in order to do that, I have to accept that I'm broken, shattered, stigmatized, diseased, and traumatized - and all that does is make me want to throw myself off a rooftop so I can start all over again. — Neil Strauss

She clapped the heels of her shoes together three times, saying: "Take me home to Aunt Em!" Instantly — L. Frank Baum

PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics. — William Stanley Jevons