Helvellyn Elevation Quotes & Sayings

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul? — Oscar Wilde

And I shuddered at the apparent freedom so many women felt simply to take what they wanted without regard for other women's feelings. It was as though we were all crazed customers at some kind of year-end shoe sale, shoving our fellow females out of the way as we clutched desperately at the few remaining pieces of merchandise. I had the discouraging sense that our culture had created female monsters, dooming us to play out these intense and bitter rivalries almost against our will. — Susan Shapiro Barash

Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be
EXTRAORDINARY. — Shannon L. Alder

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading. — Annie Proulx

Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for
a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold
what's broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you
might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be
missing.
I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a
concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I
was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again. — Megan Hart

Habits eliminate the need for self-control. — Gretchen Rubin

Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve's innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice - the very worst - but the fact that she makes a choice at all, the fact that she engages the Devil in a debate which could go either way, the fact that she acts without God breathing down her neck - all speak for her free will or, what amounts to the same thing, her margin for error. It is from this margin for error that freedom springs, because you can't be free to right unless you can be free to be wrong. — Robert Rowland Smith

Fictional characters also evolve, the way human being do in real life. — Saumya Kaushik...

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time. — Susan Block

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. — Edwin Edwards