Imentor Chicago Quotes & Sayings

Finding beauty in the dissonance — Maynard James Keenan

I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed. — Natalie Maines

Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you; you have to go for it. — Israelmore Ayivor

Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still our thought, and let divine sensation have its way. It needs industry and goodwill if we would make that transition; for the process involves a veritable spring-cleaning of the soul, a turning-out and rearrangement of our mental furniture, a wide opening of closed windows, that the notes of the wild birds beyond our garden may come to us fully charged with wonder and freshness, and drown with their music the noise of the gramaphone within. Those who do this, discover that they have lived in a stuffy world, whilst their inheritance was a world of morning-glory:where every tit-mouse is a celestial messenger, and every thrusting bud is charged with the full significance of life. — Evelyn Underhill

The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe. — Thomas Hardy

The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual freedom] — Scott Lively

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind. — Cyndi Lauper

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. — James Russell Lowell

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is. — Charlaine Harris

And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you. — Maya Banks

I ask only what I want to be told. — Jane Austen

It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life
of the senses, in love with beauty and power, oblivious to herself
and then suddenly, bingo, she wakes up and feels herself alive. She notices her own awareness. And she notices that she is set down here, mysteriously, in a going world.
— Annie Dillard

Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism. — Emil Cioran

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories. — Paulo Coelho