Estorninos Quotes & Sayings

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. — Mike Ditka

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say. — Sarah Dessen

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with. — Jen Lancaster

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm! — Tennessee Williams

Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'. — Pope John Paul II

Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. A frantic stream of words flows from us in an attempt to straighten others out. We want so desperately for them to agree with us, to see things our way. We evaluate people, judge people, condemn people. We devour people with our words. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on that.
When we become quiet enough to let go of people, we learn compassion for them. — Richard J. Foster

A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole."
"In the Shape of Shep — Eileen Granfors