Henriques Quotes & Sayings

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living. — D.H. Lawrence

He looked like a small panther, and he moved like a patch of night. — Neil Gaiman

It is an activity that takes a day to learn and a lifetime to master. — Tim Henriques

In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble. — Benjamin Franklin

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. — Shakti Gawain

Toadstools
The toadstools are starting to come
up,
circular and dry.
Nothing will touch them,
Gophers or chipmunks, wasps or swallows.
They glow in the twilight like rooted will-o'-the-wisps.
Nothing will touch them.
As though little roundabouts from the bunched unburiable,
Powers, dominions,
As though orphans rode herd in the short grass,
as though they had heard the call,
They will always be with us,
transcenders of the world.
Someone will try to stick his beak into their otherworldly styrofoam.
Someone may try to taste a taste of forever.
For some it's a refuge, for some a shady place to fall down.
Grief is a floating barge-boat,
who knows where it's going to moor? — Charles Wright

As to the roaming of sages,
They move in utter emptiness,
Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;
They run beyond convention
And go through where there is no gateway.
They listen to the soundless
And look at the formless,
They are not constrained by society
And not bound to its customs.
- Lao-tzu — Lao-Tzu

For there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Farther down the riverbank sat a young man dressed all in white. He was the only person in sight. His hair was white, his skin chalk pale, and he sat and stared up and down the river, as if he were admiring the view. He looked like how Victorian Romantic poets looked just before the consumption and drug abuse really started to cut it. The — Terry Pratchett

Instead of, "Excellent work."
Try, "I see you circled every single picture that begins with the letter B."

Instead of, "Good job following directions."
Try, "You found your spot in the circle as soon as you heard 'circle time. — Julie King

Sam was slow getting up. To Quinn he looked like an old man standing up after slipping on the ice. But he looked up at Quinn and performed a sort of salute.
I owe you, Quinn."
I'm sorry I didn't get him," Quinn answered.
Sam shook his head. "Man, don't ever be sorry you don't want to kill someone. — Michael Grant

Our obedience to God's commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

In a world full of lies, the most dangerous ones are those we tell ourselves. — Diana B. Henriques