Ergreifend Quotes & Sayings

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. — Carl Jung

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are. — Alice Walker

I eat right and ensure that I burn it all by working out equally as much as I eat. — Priyanka Chopra

Watch this, Larry. The seeds I saved from last year bring forth plants this year. It's a death, burial, and resurrection. It's this way with the sun also. It comes up in the morning and brings us light all the day long. But in the evening it goes down. Is that the end of the sun? No... It comes up the very next day. Death, burial, and resurrection."
"I never saw it like that, Charlie. Tell me more."
"See Larry, let's go deeper with that. Just for instance, something must die for something to live. You and I eat live substance--whether it is corn or beans, it's a life. That life dies to give us life. Now watch this, Larry. If that works with the physical; then it also works in the spiritual. Jesus Christ had to die to give us life... — Jerrel C. Thomas

Whatever yerz're lookin' for, I hope yerz find it. Yerz moight've never lost it! — Luke F.D. Marsden

Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises. — Anthony Esolen

With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it. — Matthew Bourne

The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness, worry, even pain. It graces life when nothing else does. It is the first marvel of the day. Even when leaden grey it is still a friend, withdrawn for a time. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mean that you can't do anything else but pray. But it does mean that you are always ready and willing to go before God with any concern or praise. Nothing is too small or too big for prayer. Prayer is simply opening your heart and connecting with God. It's taking His promises and applying them to your life. Prayer processes the plan of God. You should bathe your life in prayer. Pray for wisdom, peace, and patience. Pray for your relationships, your job, and your children. Pray for your country and leaders. Pray with others, knowing that when two or more are gathered in His name, He is there. — Joel Osteen

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. — Charles Baxter

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing. — Ruth Rendell

Breathing dreams like air — F Scott Fitzgerald

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success. — Cameron Dokey