Florentina Costina Quotes & Sayings

Is "defeatedly" a real word? As in, "She sighed defeatedly as spell-check implied that 'defeatedly' isn't a real word." Fuck it. It's going in the book, and I'm a pretty sure that makes it a real word. Me and Shakespeare. Making shit up as we go along. — Jenny Lawson

When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn." — W. Earl Brown

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist. — Truman Capote

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that you gain a good appreciation of how other people will listen - interpret, process, and assign meaning - to what you have to say before you can influence them effectively. — Margie Warrell

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan. — Timmothy Radman

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway. — Albert Einstein

Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have - that's the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality. — Wayne W. Dyer

His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the most ordinary words become poetry. When he stands close to you, your life becomes a song, a praise. When he touches you, your smallest talents become gold; the most ordinary loves break your heart with their beauty. — Martine Leavitt

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago. — William Hazlitt

How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality — Robert Adams