Fick Life Quotes & Sayings

Afraid

We cry among the skyscrapers
As our ancestors
Cried among the palms in Africa
Because we are alone,
It is night,
And we're afraid. — Langston Hughes

When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge ... is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. — Caroline Myss

People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will. — Nathaniel Fick

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run. — Mercedes Lackey

I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the end of the day there's an element that's always going to be beyond your control. — Nathaniel Fick

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are. — Sam Keen

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. — Henepola Gunaratana

But consider whether you may not get more help from the customary method[1] than from that which is now commonly called a "breviary," though in the good old days, when real Latin was spoken, it was called a "summary."[2] — Seneca.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind. — Robert Kennedy

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free. — Harry Browne

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment. — American Psychiatric Association

Hell, bravery didn't have anything to do with it. I was shitfaced. — Janet Evanovich

this: I lost Jesus in there. It seemed one could be a Christian without being a disciple of Jesus. — Sarah Bessey