Merlins Shop Quotes & Sayings

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there. — Elizabeth Janeway

When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word "cherish" comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion - we notice and care for that person. We don't shut him or her out. — Paul Miller

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke. — Marcia Gay Harden

If you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and ontinually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard as deserving of annihilation, any suffering and pain generally as evil, as detestable, and as blots on existence, well, you have then, besides your religion of compassion, yet another religion in your heart (and this is perhaps the mother of the former)-the religion of smug ease. Ah, how little you know of the happiness of man, you comfortable and good-natured ones!for happiness and misfortune are brother and sister, and twins, who grow tall together, or, as with you, remain small together! — Friedrich Nietzsche

You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them. — John Romero

When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat. — Oswald Boelcke

As he crept down the stairs, it occurred to him that as a weasel, she could've saved herself and left him to die. Again.
But when the time came, she didn't. Again. — Cynthia Hand

Sometimes life simply doesn't work in our favor, for a multitude of reasons. But if we keep investing, with faith, in our future, when the time comes, when the winds blow favorably in our direction, our speed is much faster than normal. — Robin Sacredfire

When you are starting your life over, with a new sense of self, who you once were is going to challenge you. Who you once were is going to dangle old carrots, old wounds and issues, in front of your face. When that happens, you will be tempted to revert to old feelings, old patterns of thought, and old patterns of behavior. — Iyanla Vanzant