Leisele Quotes & Sayings

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make. — Jeffrey Wright

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither. — Benjamin Franklin

I nestled into the nook of Mum's arm. Then lay on a cushion on her lap. I fell asleep like that. She's all bones and hard edges. She's never been comfortable, but she's always been there. — Nathan Filer

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars. — Imelda Marcos

Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state. — Haruki Murakami

Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through. — Dalai Lama

The formula for a great story includes both the ups and downs of life. — Lisa Y. Potocar

I know how ineffectual my actions are, but I do them on purpose
to punish myself. I deserve the pain that closeness to her brings. I want to hold her like this every day. I want to be the focus of her radiant smile. I let myself pretend for the duration of the song, and when its over I touch her face again and imagine that we are together. — Amy Plum

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life! — Sam Harris

You have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too. — Lauren Oliver

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like. — Sourav Ganguly

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much. — Keith Richards