Fruitfully Living Quotes & Sayings

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling. — Cornel West

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Some things come into your life for you to change them; some things come in to your life to change you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Prepare to win, or lose to someone who is. — Jeffrey Gitomer

A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The other is the historical descriptive aspect which is unravelling lines of phylogeny with ever-increasing precision. Each of these aspects may make suggestions concerning the possible significance of events seen under the other, but does not explain or translate them into simpler terms. — Gavin De Beer

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines - generous, gum-yielding trees - to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay. — Amy Gerstler

Although whites were more likely to be guilty of carrying drugs, they were far less likely to be viewed as suspicious, resulting in relatively few stops, searches, and arrests of whites. The — Michelle Alexander

I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy. — Haruki Murakami

Bill thought, Why are they crying so far apart? and then he shoved the thought away. — Stephen King

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child. — N.K. Jemisin

Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein