Mignosa Family Quotes & Sayings

My heart felt like a balloon that was filling too full, and I panicked. I might get the bends, the way scuba divers did when they surfaced too fast. — Janet Fitch

You don't have to take it anymore: Turn your resentful, angry, or emotionally abusive relationship into a compassionate, loving one / Steven Stosny. — Steven Stosny

Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure. — Hyman Minsky

This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more? — Deb Caletti

I wonder, What is it to be human? Especially now that we are so urban. How do we remember our connection with place? What is the umbilical cord that roots us to that primal, instinctive, erotic place? Every time I walk to the edge of this continent and feel the sand beneath my feet, feel the seafoam move up my body, I think, "Ah, yes, evolution." It's there, we just forget. — Terry Tempest Williams

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. — John Ruskin

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. — Gautama Buddha

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished. — Nelson DeMille

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it. — Pete Carroll

Let some things remain mysterious. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

God gave us a heart because it often sees what the eyes cannot see and the mind cannot understand. — Tonny K. Brown

The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far. "I have it too!" he exclaimed. "I am a part of this Earth, aren't I? Just like the birds and the trees and the people - I am."
"Om." said his companion.
Unseen by them, a blossom fell. — Helen Fox

When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city. — Charles Grandison Finney

But she was the kind of girl you couldn't keep down. Unless you cut her up and caved in her skull. — Lauren Beukes

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there. — Francis Thompson