Lifes Battles Quotes & Sayings

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit. — Dorothea Lange

The congregation just sat or stood on the sidelines watching the splendor of it but without, as far as my experience went anyway, having any very satisfactory part in it. I felt like a child with his nose pressed to a bakery shop window - impressed by what I saw but a little lonely and unnourished. The sermon, on the other hand, was one that I will long remember. It was preached by a huge monk in cloth of gold, and his point was that there are many people in this world who do not realize how impoverished they are spiritually. "Even a dog knows when it is uncomfortable" was a phrase he used, but we whose spiritual discomfort is apt to be so profound are in many cases entirely unaware of it. — Frederick Buechner

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people. — Betty White

Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison. — Henry Handel Richardson

The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given. — Peter Kreeft

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day. — Dolly Parton

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side. — Bob Marley

Perception is a powerful tool. — Shannon Lee Alexander

Many popsicles you'll find in a supermarket have a lot of unwanted sugar or preservatives, but with a few ingredients you can make healthier popsicles with any flavor you can imagine. — Marcus Samuelsson

Wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them? — Anthony Doerr

Someone once asked me ... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!" — Aaron Copland

Level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting — Elif Shafak