Esmesun Quotes & Sayings

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity. — Etty Hillesum

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more. — Emily Watson

A cheerful attitude is the most effect tool against sickness. — Lemony Snicket

If the devil was going to come, I expected to see the myth of him. A demon with an asphalt shine. He'd be fury. A chill. A bad cough. Cujo at the car window, a ticket at the Creepshow booth, a leap into the depth of night. — Tiffany McDaniel

Everyone has his cross to bear. — Franz Kafka

I remember
The way you used to hold me.
I remember
The thrill we used to share.
We seem to be
Strangers passing by now.
Tell me, did you forget how
We once cared? — Alexandra Monir

Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats. — Al Sharpton

When you wait all your life for something and then you find it, it's like a miracle. All the parts inside you that've been on hold, they open up and start beating. You were okay before, you were good. You had purpose and direction and everything was just fine. But now it's more. You can't explain what the more is, but you know, if you lose it, you'll never be able to fill those empty spaces in just the same way again. Not ever. That's terrifying. I'm afraid that what's inside me is just a trick. That I'll wake up tomorrow and what's beating in here will have stopped. It'll be quiet again. I won't feel this way. I won't feel the way I've waited all my life to feel.
I can stand you not loving me back. There's always hope that you will. But I don't know if I can stand not loving you. It would be like ... like having something stolen from inside of me. I don't know if I can handle going back to the way I was. — Nora Roberts

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good. — Mary Doria Russell

Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for. — Edna Lewis

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide? — Saint Augustine

Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions. — Matthieu Ricard