Jurnalul Evei Quotes & Sayings

The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained — Shelly Crane

To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now. — John Robinson

As I writer, I only have moments of clarity when my whole purpose is plain and laid out before me. The rest of the time I muddle about blind groping for clear purpose again. — Rich Feitelberg

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. — Leo Tolstoy

We fight for autonomy over so many areas of our lives - for decency and democracy and freedom, for suffrage, for the right to have some say over our lives, some control - and then in the central question of what we are to do with our days, with our working lives, we give all that freedom away in return for a pay cheque. And are content to be bored and obedient, resentful and uninvolved and tired. This is such a standard, universally accepted feature of the modern world - that we will dislike and be bored by our work - that we have forgotten to notice that it doesn't make any sense. — John Lanchester

Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit. — Daniel Goleman

You, Grace, you're my heaven. — Christine Zolendz

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin. — Michala Petri

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off. — Richard Le Gallienne

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another. — Josephine Baker

Heroes never listen. That's why they're heroes. — Seanan McGuire

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise. — Erik Naggum