Fryklund Land Quotes & Sayings

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. — William Burnham Woods

Women are not tools, strong women move mountain. Treat them with respect the way you would treat your president, father, daughter, son, sister or mom. Because without them humanity perish. — Henry Johnson Jr

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul. — Glen Cook

The silence in the giant redwood forest near my house draws me...At eight in the morning, the great trees stand rooted in a silence so absolute that one's inmost self comes to rest. An aged silence. Some mornings I sleep through two alarms and awaken only after the first buses have arrived. I go anyway. There are hundreds of people in the woods before me. People speaking French, German, Spanish; people marveling to each other and calling to their children in Japanese, Swedish, Russian, and some languages I do not know. And children shrieking in the universal language of childhood. But the silence is always there, unchanged. It is as impervious to these passing sounds as the trees themselves. — Rachel Naomi Remen

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. — George Eliot

Whoever wishes to remember must not stay in one place, waiting for the memories to come of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the immense world, and it takes voyaging to find them and make them leave their refuge. — Milan Kundera

People look for peaceful solutions for the world troubled by conflict. A peaceful solution can only come from a peaceful heart. Be the peaceful solution you seek. — Raphael Zernoff

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities. — Plutarch

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. — Keri Hulme

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them. — Anna Quindlen

But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things. — Paula McLain

I'm interested in other animals too though. There's the slug in "Mollusks", and I wrote a story about bees and one about a cat which got thrown out a window by mistake, but those never made it into the collection. — Arthur Bradford

The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it. — Thomas Merton

In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society. — Shinmon Aoki

The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the heart,
There will be no end to our progress. — Sri Chinmoy