Favorite Indie Song Quotes & Sayings

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. — Johannes Tauler

Contentment is the sibling of happiness;
joy is the fountain of both. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Lilith returned to her cooking. She didn't let herself think about anything but preparing the food, one ingredient at a time, a pinch of this into a bowl of that, a vial of this into a jug of that, and so it went, while the sweat ran off her in rivulets and her hair and dress clung to her, and the kitchen hummed with the droning of flies. — Georgina Anne Taylor

The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower. Didn't — Jeff VanderMeer

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'. — Walter Bagehot

There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others. — Ada Adams

Bajaj, like Birla, a convert to Gandhian principles, raised social issues that most members of the community found unpalatable: inter-caste marriage, expressing concern over the extravagance of marriage celebrations, arguing against the practice of financial speculation, condemning child marriage and asking Marwari women to give up their traditional dress and jewellery. — Akshaya Mukul

Don't do that to yourself, Spatzchen, Elsa thought. The world is full of Rowenas, women who could cut you to the quick with their cruel appraisals of what they think you are. You have to know your own sacredness in order to endure them. You have to know that you have been created for a reason that has everything to do with what is good and what is righteous. And no one can ever take that away from you. — Kelly O'Connor McNees

Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates. — Rajneesh

Bearing our cross does not mean wearing gunny sacks and long faces. Some people ... wear the look of a martyr every time they hear criticism. Sometimes we deserve the criticism we receive; however, we are blessed only when men speak evil against us falsely for Christ's sake. — Billy Graham

You look tired."
"Yeah," I agreed, and shrugged. "Near-death experiences do that to me ... — Stephenie Meyer

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. Obvious though this should be, how few writers will admit it, or having drawn the conclusion, will be prepared to lay aside the piece of iridescent mediocrity on which they have embarked! Writers always hope that their next book is going to be their best, and will not acknowledge that they are prevented by their present way of life from ever creating anything different. — Cyril Connolly

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. — John Irving