Khrystina Laurin Quotes & Sayings

He stopped and chuckled. Of course you would choose that chair. — Red Phoenix

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like. — Anna Quindlen

It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one. — Adelina Sotnikova

Why shouldn't we be honest and honorable, and lie every time we get a chance? That is to say, why shouldn't we be consistent, and either lie all the time or not at all? — Mark Twain

A Happy Heart is a good medicine & a Positive mind works Healing — JoanneTarah

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas. — Jeremy Denk

Remember that you can know yourself, and with that you know enough. But you cannot know others and everything else. Beware of knowing what lies beyond yourself, or else your presumed knowledge will suffocate the life of those who know themselves. A knower may know himself. That is his limit.
- Carl Gustav Jung — C. G. Jung

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself. — Bernard Lonergan

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. — Dan Aykroyd

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it. — Dave Hickey

But when I look at myself squarely, it's not just that I have a few difficulties or unresolved issues. Unlike those lucky people for whom therapy or medication delivers them back to themselves, I've been suffering from something that was unnamable for most of my life. Yes, I've had periods of relative stability, but the whole concept of "recovery" brings up some painful questions. What do I recover? With drug addiction, you hear that you can recover and reclaim your former self, the person you were before you started using. With other psychiatric illnesses, getting rid of symptoms means you're more or less back to "yourself." But what if you simply don't have a solid self to return to - if the way you are is seen as basically broken? And what if you can't conceive of "normal" or "healthy" because pain and loneliness are all you remember? "You were such a happy child," my mother says. But I don't remember that. So what do I recover? — Kiera Van Gelder

The character of Aristophanes suggested that humans once had three sexes: man, woman, and man-woman. I think the last group must have been like chosens. They were extremely powerful together, so Zeus split them in half. . . .Right down the middle, from head to feet. Those halves wandered around seeking the other half, the one who would make them whole and empower them again. They didn't know why, only that they weren't complete unless they were with their other half. — Coty Justus

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi