Maryanna Suzanna Quotes & Sayings

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not good conversationalists. Nothing is more boring than to listen to a person talk in a monotone without feeling. We enjoy a conversation when there is a communication of feeling. We have pleasure in expressing our feelings, and we respond pleasurably to another person's expression of feeling. The voice, like the body, is a medium through which feeling flows, and when this flow occurs in an easy and rhythmic manner, it is a pleasure both to the speaker and listener. — Alexander Lowen

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time. — John Eldredge

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament. — Monica Baldwin

if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. — Augustus Hare

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God — John G. Lake

If I had to embrace a definiton of success, it would be that success is making the best choices that we can... and accepting them. Journalist Mary Curtis suggested in The Washington Post that the best advice anyone can offer "is for women and men to drop the guilt trip, even as the minutes tick away. The secret is there is no secret - just doing the best you can with what you've got. — Sheryl Sandberg

He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances. — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl Of Halifax

If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life. — Rand Olson

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake. — Christopher Dodd

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless. — Ian Somerhalder

I'm very attentive, Marley. I want to give it all of the resources at my disposal so it will thrive and flourish. I want to watch while it grows under my nurturing hands. — M.K. Schiller

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner. — Heidi Julavits

At least the tree knows where it stands. It had a sense of place. It's fixed. Attached. And I am lost.
I belong to nothing, and no one, but that's all going to change.' - ppg 165 — Annabel Pitcher

I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry. — Emily VanCamp