La Gardenia Texas Quotes & Sayings

To make the sea your own, to watch over it, to brood your very soul into it, to accept it and love it as though only it mattered and existed. — Jack Kerouac

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story. — John Branch

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia. — Yehuda Berg

You have to have a very well-balanced life to be able to perform very well. — Stephen Ames

I believe that the phrase 'obligatory reading' is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of 'obligatory pleasure'? Pleasure is not obligatory, pleasure is something we seek. 'Obligatory happiness'! [...] If a book bores you, leave it; don't read it because it is famous, don't read it because it is modern, don't read a book because it is old. If a book is tedious to you, leave it, even if that book is 'Paradise Lost' - which is not tedious to me - or 'Don Quixote' - which also is not tedious to me. But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness, so I would advise all possible readers of my last will and testament - which I do not plan to write - I would advise them to read a lot, and not to get intimidated by writers' reputations, to continue to look for personal happiness, personal enjoyment. It is the only way to read. — Jorge Luis Borges

White women, include women of color in your agenda as you fight for equality. Don't leave us behind and then only call on us when you need our numbers. — Luvvie Ajayi

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. — Karl Popper

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer. — Craig Johnston

Fundamentalism is a form of mental illness that seeks to repress anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence. The more mature the personality structure, the greater the capacity of the person, and the culture, to tolerate the anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence that are a necessary and unavoidable dimension of our lives. — James Hollis

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. — Chris Ware