Lysenes Quotes & Sayings

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. — William, Saroyan

The ache of those words: Let's hear you. It put a plum in my throat to be the person who wanted to play but could not bear to play. To want the microphone but to stand in the back. To know there is a book in you but to never find the nerve to wrestle it out. I was so screwed up on the issue of performance. It's like I didn't want anyone to hear me, but I couldn't shut up. Or rather, I wanted everyone to hear me, but only in the way I wanted to be heard, which was an impossible wish, because nobody ever followed instructions. — Sarah Hepola

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right. — A.W. Tozer

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. — Aldous Huxley

We kiss for a long time, a good long time. I don't even notice that it's cold and I forget to be afraid because that's just how good a kisser he is. His lips move above my lips. My lips ache for the touch of him, the softness of his skin. We keep kissing. My hands wrap themselves in his hair. His hand presses me close into him, as close as I can be against him, and he is solid, strong, amazing. My hands leave his hair and journey down to the sides of his face, still tingling.
"We should keep going," he says, voice gruff and husky again. I love when his voice sounds like that, deeper than normal. His lips puff out a little more, too. "You're blushing."
I pull my lips in against each other like I'm still trying to taste him. I move my snowshoes off of his snowshoes. It's tricky.
"You're a good kisser," I say.
"So are you. — Carrie Jones

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over. — Leo Tolstoy

With all our words and ideas we only trivialize life. — Marty Rubin

I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone. — Ice Cube

So, you reap souls and crush hopes? Is that part of the job, or just a service you offer for free? — Rachel Vincent

It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities. — Charles Duhigg

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being. — William Watson Purkey

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction. — John Gimlette

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications. — J.I. Packer

In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about. — Eric Schmidt

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too. — Steve Tisch