Jagielski Henryk Quotes & Sayings

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly. — John Ray

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic. — Mark Oliver Everett

My wife and I tend to overgift to our kids at Christmas. We laugh and feel foolish when a kid is so distracted with one toy that we must force them into opening the next, or when something grand goes completely unnoticed in a corner. How consumerist, right? How crassly American. How like God. We are all that overwhelmed kid, not even noticing our heartbeats, not even noticing our breathing, not even noticing that our fingertips can feel and pick things up, that pie smells like pie and that our hangnails heal and that honey-crisp apples are real and that dogs wag their tails and that awe perpetually awaits us in the sky. The real yearning, the solomonic state of mind, is caused by too much gift, by too many things to love in too short a time. Because the more we are given, the more we feel the loss as we are all made poor and sent back to our dust. — N.D. Wilson

When divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. — Ramakrishna

And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found. — Libba Bray

None of them seem as crazy obsessive about everything as I am. It's strange 'cause I had the same feeling in high school that I have here. It's like, well, it just seems so easy for everyone else and so difficult for me. I turn from these extremes of feeling on top of the fucking world - to feeling so despondent. They don't have to struggle like I do - or maybe that's just me comparing my goddamn insides to everyone else's outsides. But I swear to God, I just seem to wrestle with everything more than anyone else. — Nic Sheff

He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning. — Libba Bray