Jaelynn Penn Quotes & Sayings

My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve. — Rosamund Lupton

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts. — Dee Hock

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. — Marilyn Manson

Does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people? — Naomi Mitchison

Psychologist Arthur S. Reber offers the following summary of the psychological research on decision making: "During the 1970s . . . it became increasingly apparent that people do not typically solve problems, make decisions, or reach conclusions using the kinds of standard, conscious, and rational processes that they were more-or-less assumed to be using." To the contrary, people could best be described, in much of their decision making, as being "arational": "When people were observed making choices and solving problems of interesting complexity, the rational and logical elements were often missing. — William B. Irvine

What you think about the most drives your reality; control your thoughts to manage your reality. — Steven Redhead

In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release. — Carl Honore

By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men. — Piers Anthony

. . .the home place is the safe haven, the convergence of waters, the place where the beloved dead are as real as the living. — Carrie La Seur

When you are in touch with the Inner Being then
irrespective of the outer state, you remain in a perpetual state of happiness! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad. — Roger Milla

I wonder, skeleton, would you still be alive? Would you be conscious if you were dice, or keys on a piano?" "Always wanted a life in music," Skulduggery mumbled. — Derek Landy

At that point [Father Sogol] gave me a roguish and forceful look demanding my complicity in this adroit falsehood. For naturally everyone was still in the dark. But by this simple ruse each person had the impression of belonging to a minority, of being among "one or two not yet informed," felt himself surrounded by a convinced majority, and was eager to be quickly convinced himself. This simple method of Sogol's for "getting the audience into the palm of his hand," as he phrased it, was a simple application of the mathematical method that consists in "considering the problem as solved." And he also used the chemical analogy of a "chain reaction." But if this use was employed in the service of truth, could one still call it falsehood? In any case everyone pricked up his ears. — Rene Daumal

Nobody moved.
Everybody sat in the dark cellar, suspended in the suddenly frozen task of this October game; the wind blew outside, banging the house, the smell of pumpkins and apples filled the room with smell of the objects in their fingers while one boy cried, "I'll go upstairs and look!" and he ran upstairs hopefully and out around the house, four times around the house, calling, "Marion, Marion, Marion!" over and over and at last coming slowly down the stairs into the waiting breathing cellar and saying to the darkness, "I can't find her."
Then ... some idiot turned on the lights.
("The October Game") — Ray Bradbury

Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance. — Bryant McGill