Elisar Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence. — Chesya Burke

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now. — Bill Loguidice

Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening ... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull ... — James Russell Lowell

"Failure" isn't a word I really use. I am a very resilient person; I bounce back extremely fast, and I believe in myself and my talent as an artist. — Sebastian Roche

Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven. — Tom Douglas

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. — Richard Nelson Bolles

Reprove thy friend privately: commend him publicly. — Solon

You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn't it? Sorry. — Terry Pratchett

The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for ... cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful. — B. Alan Wallace

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. — Richard Russo

Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity. — David Allen

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. — Henry Drummond

Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar — Suellen Drysdale

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. — Josef Albers