Gretchen Recess Quotes & Sayings

The great creative individual ... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — John Stuart Mill

Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, "I am not." Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, "I am not separate." Surrender is not an act but an understanding. — Rajneesh

You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today? — Tom Peters

Wherever you feel peacefulness, you might call it home — Windy Ariestanty

We've got to stop fracking the earth, fucking women, and screwing the poor. — Eleanor Bowman

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way. — Jeffrey Skoll

Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude. — Christopher Earle

His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were. — Guy Gavriel Kay