Hairshirt Quotes & Sayings

Real happiness combines both pleasure and meaning — Robert Mack

You must lose, at least once, in order to fully appreciate a win! — Karen E. Quinones Miller

I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window. — J.D. Salinger

The Vandy said that real witches escaped trial by water by pretending to drown, then freeing themselves with their powers. So she wants you to sink, then save yourself."
"I think I can manage the sinking part," I muttered. "The rest ... not so sure."
"You'll be fine," he said. "And if you're not up in a few minutes, I'll save you. — Rachel Hawkins

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis. — Shirin Ebadi

You have blood on your face; you've better washed it before scaring the girls again. — Linda Hamonou

Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar. — David Shi

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field. — Brian Tracy

Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle! — Tad Williams

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in. — Charles Dickens

Righty ho," I muttered. His grin came back, I decided to check online for a hairshirt so I could wear it and torture myself for my idiocy (I mean, "righty ho"?), and I scuttled out. — Kristen Ashley

We don't come to the table to fight or to defend. We don't come to prove or to conquer, to draw lines in the sand or to stir up trouble. We come to the table because our hunger brings us there. We come with a need, with fragility, with an admission of our humanity. The table is the great equalizer, the level playing field many of us have been looking everywhere for. The table is the place where the doing stops, the trying stops, the masks are removed, and we allow ourselves to be nourished, like children. We allow someone else to meet our need. In a world that prides people on not having needs, on going longer and faster, on going without, on powering through, the table is a place of safety and rest and humanity, where we are allowed to be as fragile as we feel. — Shauna Niequist

I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody. — Olly Murs

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me. — Brandi Carlile