Grises Verdosos Quotes & Sayings

True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone. — James Arthur Ray

When Jim left the planet so suddenly, all of us who loved him, worked with him, were inspired by him, gathered in New York City. We were like dandelion seeds clinging to the stem and to each other. And on May 16th, [the day Jim died] the wind began to blow. There's no stem any more. We're all floating on the breeze. And it's scary and exhilarating, and there's nothing we can do about it. But gradually, we'll all drift to the ground and plant ourselves. And no matter what we grow into, it'll be influenced by Jim. We're Jim's seeds. And it's not only those of us who knew him. Everyone who was touched by his work is a Jim-seed. — Brian Jay Jones

You're lucky your mother died,' she said.
I didn't like that. 'I'm lucky my mother died?'
Between sobs she said, 'Your mother would have stayed if she could. My mother chose to leave me. She's still out there somewhere. I wish she had died instead.'
I sat down next to her and put my arm around her. 'I'll never leave you.'
She laid her head on my shoulder. 'I know. — Richard Paul Evans

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf

There are two approaches to going to a party. One approach is to try to make yourself into someone you're not.
The other approach is the one I'm trying to use: instead of trying to be someone you're not, you can simply try to emphasize who you really are. — David Levithan

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. — Mary Baker Eddy

Art is short for artificial ... so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation ...
In a way it's a lie to get you to see the truth. — Joni Mitchell

You've touched yourself."
"It's not the same," I informed him irritably.
His head came up, he looked at me and he whispered, "No, baby, it's not. — Kristen Ashley

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car. — Kanye West

I'd felt lost for a long time after he left. It had taken a while to find my strength and independence again. It had meant hardening my heart and creating little locked doors in my soul so that only the people I trusted implicitly could ever make it inside to touch it. — Samantha Young

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that. — Hamdi Ulukaya