Maffeo Salon Quotes & Sayings

A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections. — Elizabeth Taylor

He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from depression but nobody knows why. I said, Well, thank you for that! As cheerfully as if I was accepting a plate of homemade Christmas cookies from one of my students. — Miriam Toews

I could do whatever I wanted, whether people liked it or not. — Niki De St. Phalle

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me. — Janet Evanovich

To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful. — Janet Fitch

We never did lose what we found in this room," he said, bending now and kissing my shoulder. "In fact, we turned it into the happiest hate-love of all time. — Christina Lauren

When the humanity of others who were previously invisible becomes apparent to us for the first time, I think it is because we have noticed something particular in them. By contrast, egalitarian empathy, projected from afar and without discrimination, is more principled than attentive. It is content to posit rather than to see the humanity of its beneficiaries. But the one who is on the receiving end of such empathy wants something more than to be recognized generically. He wants to be seen as an individual, and recognized as worthy on the same grounds on which he has striven to be worthy, indeed superior, by cultivating some particular excellence or skill. We all strive for distinction, and I believe that to honor another person is to honor this aspiring core of him. I can do this by allowing myself to respond in kind, and experience the concrete difference between him and me. This may call for silent deference on my part, as opposed to chummy liberal solicitude. — Matthew B. Crawford

The one who speaks dominates; the one who listens controls. — Deepak Mehra

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? — Steven Pinker

Just the kind of girl I liked - the weirdo in the bunch. — Anthony Kiedis

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together. — Carlos Ghosn

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy. — Nadia Boulanger

In a culture rife with power and position, where the home bespoke volumes, shame would not be the path of choice for anyone. Had the virgin birth not been true, to assert that truth would be the path of cultural ostracism, if not suicide for all of them. — Ravi Zacharias

The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in the past decade. — Julian Assange