Mieko Harada Quotes & Sayings

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's? — Nick Hornby

I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot. — Brenton Thwaites

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you. — Sonia

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation. — Jan Garbarek

Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own breathing and heartbeat. Whether it was the serenity and security of being surrounded by this living liquid, or the total distraction of the adventure of the unknown which took me far away from the daily weight of the child abuse and violence at home, I sank beneath the surface, and if only for those few moments, was free. — Tom North

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting. — Gerald Brommer

The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be. — John Shelby Spong

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful. — Nelson A. Miles

Biology doesn't make anyone a parent," Cassia added as she tucked her Eturian prayer stone beneath her shirt. — Melissa Landers

Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship. — Eda LeShan

I love you so much i can hardly tell my own heart from yours anymore, and I've never said it to another woman in my life as it's never until now been true. — Julie Anne Long