Inspirational Yoruba Quotes & Sayings

Raised in the Episcopal church, I was once removed from my pew, at age six, because I could not control my weeping. Unbeknownst to anyone, I had been staring at a terrible, glorious stained-glass window of the crucifixion and grieving for the pain Christ must have endured. The arresting mosaic of that forlorn image etched itself indelibly upon me. And yet at some point, I became emotionally and empathically detached. — William Stillman

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it. — Joe Abercrombie

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone. — Nadia Boulanger

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential. — Mychal Wynn

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. — Taiye Selasi

Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well. — Michael Gove

"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality. — Ken Wilber

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors. — Alante Kavaite

Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other. — Zooey Deschanel

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. — Karel Reisz

He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression. — John Connolly

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy
not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy. — Susan Quinn

Me: *crying in a fetal position in the bathtub*

The water: What's up sis?

Me: There is no guarantee of anything, of any fulfillment. We are at the absolute mercy of the projections our brain chemicals impose upon us-

The water: I'm just...gonna go back to being liquid ttyl — Unknown