Grahan Village Quotes & Sayings

Each time I reach outside my skin/I just get lonesome for what's within. — Fred Chappell

The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read. — Jane Lindskold

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. — Saul Alinsky

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants. — Douglas Hofstadter

When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company. — Abigail Disney

An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "All of them." That is, all of the numerous practices or paradigms of human inquiry - including physics, chemistry, hermeneutics, collaborative inquiry, meditation, neuroscience, vision quest, phenomenology, structuralism, subtle energy research, systems theory, shamanic voyaging, chaos theory, developmental psychology - all of those modes of inquiry have an important piece of the overall puzzle of a total existence that includes, among other many things, health and illness, doctors and patients, sickness and healing. — Ken Wilber

When a woman falls in love with something so much that she wants to wear it- it is at that point that it becomes fashion. — Oscar De La Renta

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or series of accomplishments. — Sylvia Plath

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector. — Deval Patrick

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it. — Iyanla Vanzant