Ellens Equipment Quotes & Sayings

Most fear comes from the anticipation of an event rather than the actual event itself. We worry beforehand as a form of preparation. We want to get ahead of our negative predictions. It's disguised as mental precaution when it's actually self-inflicted torment. The price of being ready for future suffering is that you suffer in the present moment. — Emily Maroutian

The secret of wisdom is to be overly curious, like a cat--to take the time to look closely, to use all your senses to see and to touch and to taste and to smell and to hear, and to die because you were overly curious. To keep on wondering...about the afterlife. That is our only mission. Only one. If we don't wonder, then we will never, ever be curious. Then, if like the cat, you wondered too far...you simply no longer will have to ever wonder again. Your mission will be fulfilled. All because of curiosity.

--from The Wise-ass Man who butchered Eve Merriam's wisdom...and Her Secret — Stan Sudan

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting. — Sherry Thomas

You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate. — Tom Ford

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life. — James Mercer

Suddenly angry, I cut off my bleak thoughts. No. I would not accept that. This was my story( ... ) — Julie Kagawa

Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. — Debasish Mridha

Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance. — Robert Walser

I know my dreams will be of you, and I'm not sure how I'll stay away from you in the morning. — Kelli Maine

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe

had often been said that the only thing that could unite Mankind was a threat from space. — Arthur C. Clarke

By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined. — Sharon Salzberg

It is no disgrace to rest a bit. — Gene Fowler