Jayantha Dharmadasa Quotes & Sayings

To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved. — Fulton J. Sheen

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve. — Edna Ferber

Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them. — C.S. Lewis

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed. — Patti Smith

Don't let anything but your talent affect your success. — Jillian Mayer

She's here now," Loki said, but I didn't look back to see if he was pulling at Finn and Thomas. "Can you let me go?"
"Not until the agreement is finalized," Finn said through gritted teeth.
"My Queen, can we settle this, please?" Loki called to her, sounding irritated. "This tracker is getting handsy."
"The Markis hasn't been too much trouble?" Sara asked, her cheeds reddening with embarrassment.
"Not too much," I replied with a thin smile. — Amanda Hocking

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy. — Jim Butcher

Bad things don't happen to people because they deserve for them to happen. It just doesn't work that way. It's just ... life. And no matter who we are, we have to take the hand we're dealt, crappy though it may be, and try our very best to move forward anyway, to love anyway, to have hope anyway ... to have faith that there's a purpose to the journey we're on. — Mia Sheridan

Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past. — Jonathan Lethem

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. — J.D. Salinger

I'm sure your body can handle it. Bodies have a way of dealing with things. It's like magic sometimes. That's what I love about human anatomy. — Tijan