Gilling Quotes & Sayings

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense. — John C. Reilly

You bloomed?

I did. If I hadn't married Chip, I might not have ever bloomed. — Joanna Gaines

Our past shapes our future whether we realize it or not. Remembering well is as important as doing well." -- Jonita Mullins — Jonita Mullins

Love is the soul of God — Lailah Gifty Akita

You must know that I do not love and that I love you,
because everything alive has its two sides;
a word is one wing of silence,
fire has its cold half.
I love you in order to begin to love you,
to start infinity again
and never to stop loving you:
that's why I do not love you yet.
I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held
keys in my hand: to a future of joy-
a wretched, muddled fate-
My love has two lives, in order to love you.
-Sonnet XLIV — Pablo Neruda

With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with. — Terry Pratchett

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful. — Marie Curie

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time? — Lian Hearn

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition. — John C. Maxwell

Have a heartattack! — David Lubar

It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed. — Frederick Lenz

In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are all brand-new hardcovers - no germy secondhand softcovers for me. They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. I — Nicola Yoon

She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You've the saddest song of any man I've ever known. The — Robin Hobb