Focuri 5 Quotes & Sayings

I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright. — Robert Morse

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve. — Jane Hirshfield

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change. — Richard Rohr

Eager?"
"Just a little," I breathed. — Shaye Evans

Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was. — Susan Estrich

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly. — John Sandford

How many times can one have a heart attack within a week? — Pawan Mishra

In a good house all is quickly ready. — George Herbert

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself. — Thomas Jefferson

Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people. — Mary Lasker

The Soul is the Gateway to Heaven within you. — Choa Kok Sui

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. — Massimo Vignelli

We Poets exist for this very purpose. We set men free from their desires.

I don't understand you. You talk in riddles.

What? You don't understand me? And yet you have been reading my poems all this while! -- There is renunciation in our words, renunciation in the metre, renunciation in our music. That is why fortune always forsakes us; and we, in turn always forsake fortune. We go about, all day long, initiating the youths in the sacred cult of fortune-forsaking.

What does it say to us?

It says:
'Ah brothers, don't cling to your goods and chattels,
And sit ever in the corner of your room.
Come out, come out into the open world.
Come out into the highways of life.
Come out, ye youthful Renouncers. — Rabindranath Tagore

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil. — Bertrand Russell

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains. — Mary Augusta Ward