Lovingkindness Pillows Quotes & Sayings

For him, the writer should be the very devil, a disturber of dreams and wrecker of fatuous utopias, the bringer-in of reality, and rival of God in his wish to make worlds. — Hanif Kureishi

I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir. — Edwidge Danticat

I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else. — Haruki Murakami

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child. — Kurt Cobain

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians. — Joyce Meyer

You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard. — Patrick Ness

Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech. — Lao-Tzu

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up. — Bear Grylls

I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training — Lionel Messi

Every choice you make supersedes and overrides every other choice you make. — Iyanla Vanzant

A real leader respects everyone, and gives them the space to realise their mistakes. — Jack Canfield

Thing we ask a servant for is a testimonial to honesty, sobriety and industry; for we soon find out that these are the scarce things, and that geniuses and clever people are as common as rats. — Oscar Wilde

Her sadness had given her a serenity which had not been there before. It was as if she had learned a hard lesson: that chances in life would not fall into her lap like ripe cherries. — Philippa Gregory