Gentlefolk Jeans Quotes & Sayings

Focus on stillness, rather than on movement — Morihei Ueshiba

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. — Harry S. Truman

God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength. — Jan L. Richardson

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome. — Hope Solo

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart. — Brenda Lee

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.
("Ephemera") — George Sterling

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being. — Terence McKenna

It is never easy to confront life-changing news, especially when you are deeply embroiled in the everyday and the banal, which we always are. They absorb almost everything, make almost everything small, apart from the few events that are so immense that they lay waste to all the everyday trivia around you. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. — Sebastiao Salgado

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop. — Mikhail Botvinnik