Laylah Owens Quotes & Sayings

What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see. — Emmet Fox

In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands. — T.D. Jakes

There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang. — Ken Dryden

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him. — Alain De Botton

And the stories will change and the canoe will become a headboard and the family will be mermaids and the rooms will be mansions. And no one will remember us, who we were or what happened here. — Bill Clegg

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell. — Thomas Merton

But I was alone, and for two reasons: The mafia was theirs, not mine. For them, the organisation always came first. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn't join it. I'm not a joiner. I never found a club or clan or idea that was more important to me than the men and women who believed in it. — Gregory David Roberts

The leaden sky seemed to hold its breath. — Eowyn Ivey

But if it makes you feel better, I don't give a fuck what comes through that door. They're not getting to you. — Julie James

I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it - that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really was a point at which even young bodies fail. I was not immortal. — Aspen Matis

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. — Shunryu Suzuki