Maung Pindad Quotes & Sayings

When you go into the desert you meet your demons face-to-face. After coming out of the desert, all those demons become angels. — Miguel Ruiz

Hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk. — Tanith Lee

No wonder Philippe always looked so exhausted," he said ruefully when he was through. "It's very fatiguing pretending you're in charge when your wife actually rules the roost. — Deborah Harkness

Maybe it's not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too - some sort of virtues - but we don't care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they're good. We care about them because they're not admirable, because they're us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it. — Michael Cunningham

Weeks ago to find the house next to hers no longer vacant. Her standard welcome-to-the-street spiel — Zoe York

He looked so frustrated and perfectly serious, and yet here we were talking about his missing seal pelt. — Katherine McIntyre

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. — George Santayana

And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before."
"Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, "for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered."
"Alas!" cried his Soul, "I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine. — Oscar Wilde

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two. — Dorothea Brande

I sense that the chocolate chips have hit the fan. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes