Izcalli Quotes & Sayings

Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for. — Jim Butcher

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Love comes as fast as shrapnel in the trenches. It's indiscriminate. It gets whoever's closest. — Hugh Howey

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one? — Susan Orlean

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters. — Aleksandar Hemon

Idleness never always means not doing anything at all, for everybody does something each moment of time! It is however also wasting our true, relevant and purposeful time on less purposeful things such that in the end, we only come to a remembrance of not just the true purposeful time we could have used, but also the true and real life we could have lived to leave distinctive footprints with the time we had! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness. — Robin Sharma

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. — M. Russell Ballard

It is impossible to do anything of significance in this world if you are not ready to enjoy success — Sunday Adelaja

Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed. — Martin Van Buren

What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason. — Richard Wright

Satan's kryptonite is separation through slander. He slanders God to us and us to God. — James MacDonald

First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It's one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays. — Bruce Springsteen