Erins Nursery Quotes & Sayings

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. — Nora Roberts

Personally, I prepare exactly the same for every game: I don't think, "I'm going to have to do extra here because of what they think of us." But if you're an England player you do tend to be told how much everyone hates you. — Ben Morgan

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze - and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence. — Spider Robinson

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things. — Plato

This [...] isn't something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you witnessed. — Julian Barnes

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics. — Scott Walker

Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change. — Pema Chodron

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. — George Pierce Baker

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. — Simone Weil

Whereas John and Yoko might have comfortably lounged around in holiday mode on palatial country estates ... the Lennons had this extraordinary urge and need to put something back. To stand up for reason in an unreasonable world, to take advantage of their extraordinary media profile to refocus public attitude and outlook on the murdering of other humans. (Ritchie Yorke) — Yoko Ono

And this, she saw, her dream had done. She had built against that fear a vision of power not wholly selfish - power to protect not only herself, but others. And that vision - however partial it had been in those days - was worth following. For it led not away from the fear, as a dream of rule might do, but back into it. The pattern of her life - as she saw it then, clear and far away and painted in bright colors - the pattern of her life was like an intricate song, or the way the Kuakgan talked of the grove's interlacing trees. There below were the dream's roots, tangled in fear and despair, nourished in the death of friends, the bones of the strong, the blood of the living, and there high above were the dream's images, bright in the sun like banners or the flowering trees of spring. And to be that banner, or that flowering branch, meant being nourished by the same fears: meant encompassing them, not rejecting them. — Elizabeth Moon

I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities. — Kate Winslet

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall. — Odetta

While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life. — Jack E. Weller

Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love. — Josemaria Escriva