Holiday Mood Activated Quotes & Sayings

An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the dead options. Only then, that is, by the action of Will, good results in good and evil in evil. — Raheel Farooq

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. — Charles Edward Montague

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks. — Emma Stone

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth. — Epictetus

Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis. In order to be it must become. Its "duration" (in the Bergsonian meaning of the word) is found in the interplay of opposites permanence and change. — Paulo Freire

Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder — Stephenie Meyer

I love you. I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I want to marry you, and, yes, I want you to be my empress." Cinder gaped at him for a long moment before she whispered, "That's a lot of wanting." "You have no idea." She — Marissa Meyer

Those who are growing great are always asking "why?" If they fail or lose, they ask "why?" If they succeed or win too, they ask "why? — Israelmore Ayivor

My understanding of incarnation is that we are not served by getting away from the grubbiness of suffering. Sometimes we feel that we are barely pulling ourselves forward through a tight tunnel on badly scraped-up elbows. But we do come out the other side, exhausted and changed. — Anne Lamott

Don't get caught in the trap of "Waiting".

When I retire....
When I get off work
When I go that party this weekend

When this happens then I can live.

People miss the present and then wonder where time went. Allow life unfold in its divine sequence by being utterly present. — Matthew Donnelly

As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis. — Gwynne Dyer

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will — Robin Hobb

If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology. — Heidi Julavits

Yoga probably makes me a better person. — Jennifer Morrison