Kindling Temperature Quotes & Sayings

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them. — Jane Roberts

What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader ... Let us become a real servant instead. — Mata Amritanandamayi

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have searched myself for this possibility with a kind of horror. For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage. My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby. — John Steinbeck

[ ... ] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks. — Terry Pratchett

Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be? — Mike Carey

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. — Eckhart Tolle

No such thing as nothing. So it's gotta be a something, don't it? — Patrick Ness

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. — Michael Tippett

If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and just let them happen. — James Hamilton

So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us. — Eydie Gorme

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to. — Rex Stout

So this is what I said to Mom; this is what I meant to say -
That there was something inside Fern I didn't know.
That I didn't know her in the way I'd always thought I did.
That Fern had secrets and not the good kind.
Instead I'd said I was afraid of her. That was the lie that got her sent away. — Karen Joy Fowler

Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on. — Torron-Lee Dewar

How'd she happen to mention me? Does she do to B.M. now? She said she might go there. she said she might go to Shipley, too. I thought she went to Shipley. how'd she happen to mention me?"
- Personally after reading chapters 1-5 and learning about Jane and Holden's relationship as friends or just to people you can tell that obviously he does truly care about this girl. To make situations between Holden and Stradlater I see jealousy come with in the mix when a date between "Strad" and jane come up to holden during one of there normal horsing around moods — J.D. Salinger