Ernestina De Champourcin Quotes & Sayings

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last! — Walt Whitman

To stop the drug traffic is not the best way to prevent people from using drugs. The best way is to practice the Fifth Precept and to help others practice. Consuming mindfully is the intelligent way to stop ingesting toxins into our consciousness and prevent the malaise from becoming overwhelming. Learning the art of touching and ingesting refreshing, nourishing, and healing elements is the way to restore our balance and transform the pain and loneliness that are already in us. To do this, we have to practice together. The practice of mindful consuming should become a national policy. It should be considered true peace education ... Those who are destroying themselves, their families, and their society by intoxicating themselves are not doing it intentionally. Their pain and loneliness are overwhelming, and they want to escape. They need to be helped, not punished. Only understanding and compassion on a collective level can liberate us (78-79). — Thich Nhat Hanh

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth-we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by. — Edna Ferber

The original stories are mined out, and all that's left is fool's gold. — Lauren Beukes

We were strange in love
her and I
too wild to last
too rare to die. — Atticus Poetry

Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays. — Gia Coppola

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness. — Mary Shelley

The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns. — Muhammad Ali

To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it. — Lucy Corin

If you can't control an emotion, it is not yours. You are in control. — Bobbie Kinkead