Maddesignsbeads Quotes & Sayings

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists. — Robert Greene

...consider how [the Proverbs] define success: the establishment of righteousness, justice and equity. (pg. 95) — Ellen F. Davis

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. — Peter Drucker

To possess another language is to possess another soul. — John Le Carre

Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself. — Ethan Hawke

You're so busy being you, you don't realise how unprecedented you are — John Green

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

The living spirit grows and even outgrows its earlier forms of expression; it freely chooses the human beings who proclaim it and in which it lives. This living spirit is eternally renewed and pursues its goal in manifold and inconceivable ways throughout the history of humankind. Measured against it, the names and forms which men have given it mean very little: They are only the changing leaves and blossoms on the stem of the eternal tree. — C. G. Jung

This wired generation is kind of cool. — LeVar Burton

Begin with the possible; begin with one step. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Some will make you Dance, some will make you Smile, and some will make your misery longer than a mile! Pleasure or Pain, the Choice is thine. — R.v.m.

And now, she felt the presence of Grandmother Deal, as always--that same unexplainable presence of the woman who had mothered them all, whose love for her children and her children's children was so deep that after all the years it still seemed a tangible thing, delicate and rare, like the faint subtle odor of a fine perfume.

Could such things be, she wondered vaguely...? Could the loved dead come back? At a time like this, was the memory of them so keen to one sensitive like herself, that they only seemed to return and mingle with those to whom they had been devoted? Or was there in some way unknown to humans, a definite magical blending of these imperishable spirits with the mortal spirits of those they had so deeply loved? — Bess Streeter Aldrich

The blacklist was a time of evil ... no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil ... [Looking] back on this time ... it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. — Dalton Trumbo

Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do."

"Is it? Even if you're a monster? — Heather R. Blair