Gravestone Markers Quotes & Sayings

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions. — Marianne Williamson

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return. — Jennifer Stone

Once again, he does something and I can't decide if it's sweet, if it's perverted, or if it's criminal. — Dm. L. Carter

Effort does matter; diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you. — Atul Gawande

I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between. — Nadja Spiegelman

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin. — Sandra Bullock

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver. — Russell Simmons

It must be admitted that the results of this method of interpreting the art of making presents were not always happy. The idea which I formed of Venice, from a drawing by Titian which is supposed to have the lagoon in the background, was certainly far less accurate than what I have since derived from ordinary photographs. — Marcel Proust

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why. — Hugh Newell Jacobsen

I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. — David Levithan

My last penny! I think I'll squander it on myself. I never feel badly about spending money my dad has earned honestly! I can't decide whether I should buy a balloon or a gumball. A gumball would taste mighty good, but a balloon would be a lot more fun ... I'll take a balloon! Sooner or later in life a person has to learn to make decisions! (Sees someone with a different color balloon) Gee, I wish I'd bought a RED balloon. — Charles M. Schulz

When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me. — Robert Sheckley