Lapolaka Quotes & Sayings

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. — Robert Byrne

I don't really do New Year's resolutions because I don't think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you've got a problem, you need to fix it now. — Clay Aiken

Calm seeped through her body, taking the place of the fear. She experienced a blissful sense of homecoming, a peace she had never known, as the tiger became her and she became the tiger. In one fragment of time she understood all the mysteries of creation, that every living being was part of every other living being, that all were part of God, bound by love, put on earth to care for one another. She knew then that there was no fear, no disease, no death. Nothing of any importance existed but love. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was. — Jose Antonio Vargas

No man has any influence or power for good when angry. — J. Golden Kimball

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it. — Jordan Knight

Until men desire to control their own passions, evil has rooted itself in their hearts and darkness will rise again. — Jaime Buckley

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness. — Louise Penny

Denounce useless guilt. Don't make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87. — Erica Jong

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country. — Van Jones

One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.' — Salman Rushdie

In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects. — Lynsey Addario

I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall. — Neil Gaiman