Estivesses Quotes & Sayings

In this world, this life, "flow" [the times when our work or play so absorbs and attunes our energies that we lose track of time] comes to an end. The canvas is dry, the fugue is complete, the band plays the tag one more time and then resolves on the final chord. And, too, the book is finished, the service is over, the lights go up in the darkened theater and we emerge blinking into the bright lights of the "real world." But what if the timeless, creative world we had glimpsed is really the real world -- and it is precisely its reality that gave it such power to captivate us for a while? What if our ultimate destiny is that moment of enjoyment and engagement we glimpse in the artist's studio? — Andy Crouch

You love him because this is what you do. Over and over again. You knit yourself right up into these men's lives, these men who will never ever be able to love you back, and then you wonder like a crazy person why you aren't the chosen one at the end. You have to stop doing this ... — Collier Lumpkin

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of history. — Leo Tolstoy

Being in a band is about making the band the priority. — Adam Duritz

Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened. — Osamu Dazai

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman. — Adela Rogers St. Johns

Heads half-glued together, Abby and Lara had engaged in rapid-fire chitchat as they all hurried across campus. — Madeleine Roux

Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but from the ways of knowing and being that characterize one's own immediate family and community. — Margo V. Perkins

You didn't have to believe what you were saying; you just had to make others believe that you cared. — Julie Kagawa

Doubt is like a thorn you can't get a hold on. — Melanie Raabe

Human evolution has two steps -
from being somebody to being nobody;
and from being nobody to being everybody.
This knowledge can bring
sharing and caring throughout the world. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar