Erika Napoletano Quotes & Sayings

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip. — Eckhart Tolle

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. — Maya Angelou

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur. Anxiety increases, and in order to obliterate the anxiety, people turn to extreme sex, violence, and even murder. — Ryu Murakami

If the people are the landlords of the public airwaves and the television and radio stations are the tenants, why don't the tenants pay rent? — Ralph Nader

The dark side always seemed very organized and vaguely Republican. — Jenny Lawson

The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess. — S. Kelley Harrell

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. — Marc Bloch

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely. — Ethel Waters

RECONDITION YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS — David J. Schwartz

Merely litter, as if it must have some ominous significance. As it gazed at me from the cupped palm of my right hand, I didn't realize that the sounds of the city were diminishing, until suddenly I became aware that a profound silence had fallen over the alleyway. For an instant, I thought that I had gone deaf, but then I heard myself say, What's happening? — Dean Koontz