Les Eaux De Chanel Quotes & Sayings

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged. — Karen Armstrong

See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself! — Wilhelm Reich

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door. — Ethel M. Dell

Let it go and live in the moment with joy. — Debasish Mridha

If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game. — Ron Wyden

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience. — Watchman Nee

(this was a couple years before the sudden advance of someone in the luggage industry realizing that suitcases could be fitted with little wheels and telescoping handles so they could be pulled, which was just the sort of abrupt ingenious advance that makes entrepreneurial capitalism such an exciting system - it gives people incentive to make things more efficient). — David Foster Wallace

Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability - a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and take in ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions. — Krista Tippett

When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside - jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We — Denis Johnson

Poetry?"
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"No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head. — Mary E. Pearson

The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now. — Sarada Devi

I'm the oldest out of five. — Jamie Anne Allman

She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle of the prarie, in the middle of Texas, which was about as middle of nowhere as it was possible to get unless you wanted to go to Mongolia or something ...
Claire started dialing numbers. The first person told her that they'd already found somebody ... The second one sounded like a weird old guy. The third one was a weird old lady. The fourth one ... well, the fourth one was just plain weird. — Rachel Caine