Malenfant Dallaire Quotes & Sayings

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing. — Julia Cameron

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. — Nicholas Sparks

What my friends didn't know about me and I didn't know about Amma is that people who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpless vigil to our pain. — Glennon Doyle Melton

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. — Gustavo Dudamel

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed. — Thomas Jefferson

There came a time near dawn on the eve of spring, and Luthien danced upon a green hill; and suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night and pours its voice among the dying stars, seeing the sun behind the walls of the world; and the song of Luthien released the bonds of winter, and the frozen waters spoke, and flowers sprang from the cold earth where he feet had passed. Then the spell of silence fell from Beren, and he called to her, crying Tinuviel; and the woods echoed the name. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Because no matter what happens, you are going to get hurt in life. But it's so much better to have jumped into the ocean and gotten stung by a jellyfish than to never have felt the salt water between your toes at all. — T.K. Leigh

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived. — P. J. O'Rourke

Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did. — Mary McCarthy

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. — Tennessee Williams

I'm one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin. — Lynn Emanuel

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. — Garrison Keillor