Galizia Quotes & Sayings

You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath. — Aristotle.

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word. — John C. Maxwell

Those who spend long hours engaged in reading or writing should not be spoken to for seven hours afterward. — Sofia Samatar

Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader. — Bill Walsh

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish. — Ernest Hemingway,

World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible. — George Orwell

Death is but a doorway to another path. — Joyce Lavene

The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche

But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."
"What is that, grandmother?"
"To understand other people. — George MacDonald

For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and high school, the main currency is vivacity and gregariousness; attributes like depth and sensitivity don't count for much. — Susan Cain

Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage. — Napoleon Hill

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. — Nigel Short

I didn't know it buy You moved in the pain. I said, let him be alive,' not believing in You, and my disbelief made no difference to You. You took it into Your love and accepted it like an offering, and tonight the rain soaked through my coat and my clothes into my skin, and I shivered with the cold, and it was for the first time as though I nearly loved You. I walked under Your windows in the rain and I wanted to wait under the all night only to show that after all I might learn to love and I wasn't afraid of the desert any longer because You were there. I came back into the house and there was Maurice with Henry. It was the second time You had given him back: the first time I had hated you for it and You'd taken my hate like You'd taken my disbelief into Your love, keeping them to show me later, so that we could both laugh ... — Graham Greene