Firelight Foundation Quotes & Sayings

He'd never treated her like a lady. He'd treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious. — Courtney Milan

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. — Willard Van Orman Quine

I have always felt as thought we are all made for deep relationship. I don't mean this in a prudish, judgmental way, but in the sense that whenever we do give up easily on people, or have one-night stands, or divorce, especially on a whim, it's no wonder we feel empty inside, even if we don't want to admit it. We seem 'wired' for so much more. — Carolyn Weber

'It's hard to come by peanuts that crack so nice and crisp,' said J. — Haruki Murakami

My heart want to feel the touch.
Feel the eternal love so much. — Debasish Mridha

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. — Osho

Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild. — Patricia Briggs

In the three months since I'd moved to Paris, I hadn't been to a single party. I was eager to get dressed up and go somewhere, dying to talk to somebody other than the guy who sold me my zucchini. — Elizabeth Bard

As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write. — Kathryn Schulz

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green. — James Howard Kunstler

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words. — Rachel

Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster. — Jimmy Buffett

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body. — John Bruton

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world. — Tony Blair

The life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin. — John Owen