Functioned Properly Quotes & Sayings

I cannot stop the world from moving. All I can do is be prepared for when it does. — Danielle L. Jensen

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else. — Francoise Sagan

The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble. — Stephen Graham Jones

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge. — Aristotle.

I don't mind being a moth. I would probably start eating silk if it meant that I could fly. — Marie Rutkoski

This life is like a riding a bicycle, we are only able to change its course — Aidil Uzaimi

Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not
and decides to take offence. — Anton Chekhov

When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole bunch of things and reveals that you have not had an authentic God experience yet. Rigid religion and compulsive religiosity, all unloving religion, is a rather clear sign that you have not met God! Once you have had a unitive experience with God, reality, or even yourself, your life invariably shows two things: quiet confidence and joyous gratitude. — Richard Rohr