Macuto Online Quotes & Sayings

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story. — Donald Miller

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father. — Pope Francis

It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices. — Neil Gaiman

If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither;
Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes.
No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead
So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life. — Rumi

He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function. — Elena Ferrante

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities. — Zach Braff

What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! Here the Swede would find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of Scane rich in corn, and the valleys of Norrland; here the Norwegian would find his rapid rivers ... The climate, the situation, the character of the scenery agrees with our people better than that of any other American States ... — Fredrika Bremer

Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end. — Fauja Singh

She knows some of her thoughts are irrational. She knows it and has always known it, even in fifth grade, when she used to layer on clothes - four shirts, three pairs of underwear, shorts under her jeans - anxiously, frantically crying her eyes out for fear people could see her naked through her clothes.
What an awful time that was. Fear like that is constant, tiring. — Lisa McMann

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear. — Jamie Blackley

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people. — Sigourney Weaver