Jeshurun Quotes & Sayings

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me. — Scott Thompson

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet. — Paul Zindel

No, I found her. I know she doesn't look like a puppet, but she is one. I know it because when I first picked her up I said something I'd never said before. I put her down and when I picked her up I said the thing again without meaning to, and again it was something I hadn't said before, even though the words were the same. What's her routine? At the moment she only asks this one queation, but I'm hoping to learn how to get her to ask another. What's her question? Is your blood as red as this? A chess piece asking a personal queation, possibly one of the most personal questions that could be asked. — Helen Oyeyemi

Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era. — Ray Kurzweil

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane. — Cory Lidle

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel;
But hand, you shall work alway! — Louisa May Alcott

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. — James M. Barrie

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses. — Aung San Suu Kyi

1. Live now. Be concerned with the present rather than with past or future.
2. Live here. Deal with what is present rather than with what is absent.
3. Stop imagining. Experience the real.
4. Stop unnecessary thinking. Rather, taste and see.
5. Express rather than manipulate, explain, justify, or judge.
6. Give in to unpleasantness and pain just as to pleasure. Do not restrict your awareness.
7. Accept no should or ought other than your own. Adore no graven image.
8. Take full responsibility for your actions, feelings, and thoughts.
9. Surrender to being as you are. — Claudio Naranjo

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist. — Ryan McGinley

When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception. — Peter D. Kramer

Being alive was easy. Living, on the other hand ... well, that was a little harder. — Belle Aurora

Feelings are not facts — Anonymous

O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani