Gutteling A Tree Quotes & Sayings

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. — Chinua Achebe

The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not. — James Salter

Some lessons you learn gradually and some you learn in a sudden moment, like a flash going off in a dark room. I sift and rake and dig around in my vivid recollections of young Sean on the floor in summer, and I try to see what makes him tick, but I know a secret about young Sean, I guess, that he kind of ends up telling the world: nothing makes him tick. It just happens all by itself, tick tick tick tick tick, without any proximal cause, with nothing underneath it. He is like a jellyfish adrift in the sea, throbbing quietly in the warm waves of the surf just off the highway where the dusty white vans with smoked windows and indistinct decals near their wheel hubs roll innocently past. — John Darnielle

Most injuries require chiropractic care. It works better for me than anything else. — Jerry Rice

By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another's solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something deeper than any human being can give. — Parker J. Palmer

... I'll always love you, even after I'm dead and gone and am nothing. My love will linger on. It's that awesome, that strong, that real. Have no doubt of that, Sara Walker. — Lindy Zart

Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles. — Virginia Woolf

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. — Louis Sachar

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe. — Rickey Henderson

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.' — Jen Lancaster