Franklin Howard Scobey Quotes & Sayings

Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions. — Dan Millman

I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child. — John Shelby Spong

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it. — Lauryn Hill

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers. — William Shakespeare

All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part. — Naomi Novik

Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life. — Charles B. Rangel

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy. — Emil Cioran

He was curiously calm. Men were supposed to go mad with grief when their children died, he knew. They were supposed to tear their hair out by the roots, to curse the gods and swear red vengeance. So why was it that he felt so little? The boy lived and died believing Robert Baratheon his sire. Jaime had seen him born, that was true, though more for Cersei than the child. But he had never held him. "How would it look?" his sister warned him when the women finally left them. "Bad enough Joff looks like you without you mooning over him." Jaime yielded with hardly a fight. The boy had been a squalling pink thing who demanded too much of Cersei's time, Cersei's love, and Cersei's breasts. Robert was welcome to him. And now he's dead. — George R R Martin

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours. — Chauncey Wright

There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36). — Cynthia Heald

But I thought I'd always be your little boy?" "That's just something parents say when it suits us. — Sunjeev Sahota

Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding. — Mooji

Problems come few and far between in the life of a proactive person. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe