Mariken Maidenhair Quotes & Sayings

Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life's destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be. — T.D. Jakes

My life is not only about my strengths and virtues; it is also about my liabilities and my limits, my trespasses and my shadow. An inevitable though often ignored dimension of the quest for "wholeness" is that we must embrace what we dislike or find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confident
and proud of. — Parker J. Palmer

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions. — Nikki Sixx

:Go to hell, Jamie," I said at last, wiping my eyes. "Go directly to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars. There. Do you feel better now? — Diana Gabaldon

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me. — Phil Klay

I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high. — Anna Wickham

When the Lord's angelic brakeman brings my life to a standstill, "and this train ends" I will board the next train and "I'll try again" (lyrics from Tuesday's Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd). — Jonah Books

At such moments Gilberte's plaits used to brush my cheek. They seemed to me, in the fineness of their grain, at once natural and supernatural, and in the strength of their constructed tracery, a matchless work of art, in the composition of which had been used the very grass of Paradise. To a section of them, even infinitely minute, what celestial herbary would I not have given as a reliquary. But since I never hoped to obtain an actual fragment of those plaits, if at least I had been able to have their photograph, how far more precious than one of a sheet of flowers traced by Vinci's pencil! To acquire one of these, I stooped - with friends of the Swanns, and even with photographers - to servilities which did not procure for me what I wanted, but tied me for life to a number of extremely tiresome people. — Marcel Proust

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. — Bernard Meltzer

Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig... — J.K. Rowling

Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political. — Janeane Garofalo

Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives. — Eric Idle

It's true that the pain makes people change — Kid Cudi

The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that proceeded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity. — Sherwin B. Nuland