Mazama Quotes & Sayings

This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn't see them in my mind's eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and the silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing process. — Cheryl Strayed

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. — Luc De Clapiers

The real me: A woman who continues to blossom into her authentic self. — Sandra Vischer

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive. — Samuel Johnson

He ate with all the restraint of a nymphomaniac at an orgy. — Thaddeus White

How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is? — Suzanne Falter-Barns

Seek the strongest color effect possible ... the content is of no importance. — Henri Matisse

I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of blood from my nose, sometimes I wake scared and shaking. I read, go to museums and visit Lilly in the afternoon. Sometimes I read to her, sometimes I talk to her, sometimes I just sit and remember the times, remember the times, remember the times. (James Frey, pg.119) — James Frey