Mariko Takahashi Quotes & Sayings

Want loud and messy and crazy. I want crayons on the wall and bicycles in the driveway and playing ball in the backyard. I want to teach my kids to read and climb trees and drive a standard. I want noise and laughter and yelling and the kind of love that can't ever be broken. — Shannon Stacey

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. — Winston S. Churchill

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled. — Joel Osteen

Carpe Diem. The words are etched in the metal pendant. Tomorrow isn't a guarantee. Nothing is promised. So today? Seize the Day.
That's how Naz lives his life.
That's how I want to live it with him. — J.M. Darhower

Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions? — Nadia Hashimi

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns. — Jennifer Stone

That was beautiful.
She is holding my hand.
No, it wasn't.
If she let go, I would fall apart.
It was. It was beautiful because it was honest and it was beautiful because it hurt and it was beautiful because you didn't have to tell it to me.
Fall apart.
It makes me feel like shit. — James Frey

Do I love laziness more than I love the feeling of accomplishing work? I take the path of least resistance and curl up with a book. — Sylvia Plath

I start every morning with a Rosicrucian ritual, meditation and exercise. I can't separate myself from this habit of connecting myself to the other realm every day, not anymore, because I'm actually more there than here. I always was, but now I know how to maintain this balance, even in solitude. — Robin Sacredfire

If you fall then that's not all ... if you wish to be down then stay down ... if you wish to be up then get up. — Janice Markowitz

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit. — Mahatma Gandhi

O rose, you look sick.
O rose, wake up and sing. — Santosh Kalwar

The world since Adam has been white - and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black - and righteous. In the white world there has been nothing but slavery, suffering, death and colonialism. In the black world of tomorrow, there will be true freedom, justice and equality for all. And that day is coming - sooner than you think. — Malcolm X