Ilyan Jewelry Quotes & Sayings

Don't complain; just work harder. — Randy Pausch

Erik Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.2 Psychiatrist Anthony Storr writes of solitude in much the same way. Storr says that in accounts of the creative process, "by far the greater number of new ideas occur during a state of reverie, intermediate between waking and sleeping ... It is a state of mind in which ideas and images are allowed to appear and take their course spontaneously ... the creator need[s] to be able to be passive, to let things happen within the mind."3 In the digital life, stillness and solitude are hard to come by. — Sherry Turkle

I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids. — Rachel Bilson

One of the first things that strikes us about the men and women in Scripture is that they were disappointingly non- heroic. We do not find splendid moral examples. We do not find impeccably virtuous models. That always comes as a shock to newcomers to Scripture: Abraham lied; Jacob cheated; Moses murdered and complained; David committed adultery; Peter blasphemed. — Eugene H. Peterson

A dying scream makes no sound,
Calling out to all that have ever known
Here am I, lost and found
Calling out to all — Oasis

Sometimes your destiny has to change. Sometimes life gets in the way, and you have to change your plans. — Lisa M. Harley

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman. — John Joseph Bernet

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. — J.K. Rowling

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine. — Andy Murray

Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.
We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always thus remain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is also such a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particular generation, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark to a society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times. — Albert Einstein

Is a lie still a lie
if you say it pretty? — Fortesa Latifi

One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it. — Franz Kafka

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened." — Eckhart Tolle