Mikolajska 5 Quotes & Sayings

I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around. — Amy Poehler

While the parents might view the adolescent as provoking them, they are also provoking the adolescent. Deliberately or not, the parents might be saying or doing things that are increasing the adolescent's anxiety or frustration, rather than reducing the level of tension by staying calm and listening carefully to what the adolescent is saying. — Joseph A. Micucci

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. — Albert Camus

I think what you're groping for is that people need more than to feel scolded, more than to be made to feel stupid and guilty. They need more than a vision of doom. They need a vision of the world and of themselves that inspires them. — Daniel Quinn

Vianne had been improvising recipes for years, and people, to her mind, were not that much different than food. Both were highly predictable if you paid attention. First, — Kenley Davidson

The initiate, a boy of no more than twelve, was wailing and a group of older boys were holding him down on a log while a few men cut into him, making hundreds of small slits on his back and shoulders. They dropped a citrus mixture into each wound so that the skin would puff up and the scars would be raised and textured to look like crocodile skin. His blood had soaked the log in dark striations. When they were done they painted him with oil and turmeric and smeared him with white clay and carried him off weeping and half conscious into seclusion until he healed. Fen and I walked down to the beach. I'd seen dozens — Lily King

Those who lead are able to do so because those who follow trust that the decisions made at the top have the best interest of the group at heart. — Simon Sinek

Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement. — Al Alvarez

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem. — Marvin Bell