Gebouw Roze Quotes & Sayings

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance. — John Muir

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight. — Jessica Savitch

I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that ... So I love very curvy girls. — Carine Roitfeld

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. — G.K. Chesterton

Make my happiness , i will make yours . let no man prevent me , i have her and i will keep her. — Charlotte Bronte

They are not easily irritated or annoyed. Some people seem to be able to rise above their irritations and they are fun to be with because they are poised and even-tempered. They seem to live on an upper level emotionally and are not easily riled up. They keep in a good humor and spirit. — Norman Vincent Peale

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. — Peter Conrad

Very well, Priscilla. Maggie, I hope you enjoy this exercise and take it to heart," he said with a hard voice.
I smiled a genuine smile. "I plan to. Thank you."
He bristled at my kindness and walked over to the coffee bar.
"Kill 'em with kindness, sister!" Lynne said triumphantly. — Shelly Crane

The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism. — Chogyam Trungpa

To me, it felt like such a failure. I never thought my mom and I would get that low. I wasn't ready to admit defeat. — Heather Demetrios