Hedgebrook Whidbey Quotes & Sayings

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice — Rodney White

I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow. — Gemma Malley

The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by. — Robert Thurman

They're talking about Kobe and how great it is that he's playing with the team. Well, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Now he's the savior because he's playing that way? He's no god. He does what he's supposed to be doing, which is what we learned in kindergarten. Share the ball and play. And that's what we do better than they do — Jack McCallum

Speaking commits me Listening teaches me Silence tempers me Birth — Edouard Leve

People should never be a destination, but rather a partner for the road. — Ruth Cardello

Behind the mountain is another mountain; behind the fire is another fire. — Nick Lake

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. — Maria Monk

It is easy to climb the ladder of success if one is working on issues and aeas which are not frequented by the masses, provided one is ready to face challenges. — Vishwas Chavan

What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it. — Marina And The Diamonds

We "love" people the way we "love" ourselves, and if we are not good enough, then no one is. — Jen Hatmaker

They were allowed a little touch at each of the books, but only with their fingertips tonight, literature cannot bear dirty hands; first we'll have to back each volume with paper, the covers must not get dirty, nor the spines slit, books are the nation's most precious possession, books have preserved the nation's life through monopoly, pestilence, and volcanic eruption, not to mention the tons of snow that have lain over the country's widely scattered homesteads for the major part of every one of its thousand years. — Halldor Laxness

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. — Stephen King

Why was the world so obsessed with sameness? — Tara Kelly

For capitalism to work, we all need one another. — Elizabeth Warren