Laxdale Quotes & Sayings

There is some strange sense in which distance and closeness are sisters, the two sides of the one experience. Distance awakens longing; closeness is belonging. Yet they are always in a dynamic interflow with each other. When we fix or locate them definitively, we injure our growth. It is an interesting imaginative exercise to interchange them: to consider what is near as distant and to consider the distant as intimate. — John O'Donohue

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. — V.C. Andrews

It was enough to see her face light up when we heard the sounds that told us my brother was come home, or to catch the sudden tenderness that came into is eyes when he looked at he, to realise the depth of the love that had grown between those two strange hearts. — Ahdaf Soueif

Could this explain my visions? Could M be for Mom, me, and meet? Maybe my future really could lie in my past. — Heather Sappenfield

To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly. — Frederick Lenz

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness. — Louise Wilder

Basic research leads to new knowledge," Bush wrote. "It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn. — Walter Isaacson

The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'. — Joyelle McSweeney

Thoughts and theories don't build the road. — Amit Kalantri

Even in my age now, I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong — Ayumi Hamasaki

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get. — Joyce Meyer

When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington's birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style. — Daniel J. Boorstin