Hironari Quotes & Sayings

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes. — Sharon Salzberg

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat. — Leonard Slatkin

Perhaps I had never had a grip on myself to start with, living life on cruise-control while I waited for a home that would never be mine. It would be warm. Loving. Wonderfully chaotic, occasionally tempestuous, but full of good intentions and laughter. It would be all of the great things embodied by your run-of-the-mill greeting card, and it was still the last thing that I thought of each night as I let myself believe for a moment or two that such things were possible. — Alice Yi-Li Yeh

And so, October 13, 1977; 8:29 p.m. EST became the dawning moment of Year Zero to the rest of the universe. — Rob Reid

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down. — Mia Wasikowska

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down. — Toyin Odutola

... the world revels in its own filth and will make a laughing stock out of anyone who tries to clean it up — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave. — Muhammad Ali

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.' — Alex Pettyfer

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm. — Joseph Addison

I Spy with my little eye a hero's heart, a heart that beats not for itself but for all humanity."
"I'M NOT BEING MODEST. I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO DIE," Ben exclaims. — John Green

And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess. — Jo Walton

I choose you over everyone. — Rainbow Rowell

Why do big men tend to have such little brains? Perhaps they get by on brawn too often, and their minds dry up like plums in the sun. — Joe Abercrombie