Escapades John Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever been so happy in your life? — Mary Oliver

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die. — John Taylor Gatto

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge. — Jane Hirshfield

~Remember this always:
Your body and mind can be broken, but your Spirit, is unbreakable, and unchangeable~


When we talk about people or circumstances breaking our spirit, what we mean is that a person has been affected emotionally to the point of feeling broken; however, NOTHING in this world has the capacity to break or change our Spirit!
Our Spirit is what gives us the ability to overcome the misery and suffering experienced by our body and mind.

Our spirit is what drives prisoners of war come out unbroken; our spirit is what drives the victims of rape and abuse to overcome the emotional burdens of their mind.
Believe this! NOTHING can break or change your Spirit, because your spirit is above all things! — Martin Suarez

We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers. — Gordon Bethune

The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion. — Marty Rubin

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner. — Barry Humphries

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign. — Mahatma Gandhi

He who have two grounds of trust is lost! — Charles Spurgeon

The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. — H.L. Mencken

Victims don't want to be proactive about changing - they want to be proactive about making sure that the person who hurt them pays. And so we spend our energy telling our sad stories rather than taking responsibility for our behavior. Thus we open the door of our hearts and welcome in the Trojan horse of bitterness. And it stands there, a monument, a constant reminder of a debt someone has yet to pay. Somebody owes us. — Andy Stanley

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.' — Denis Leary

Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels? — Richard Connell