Mirador Quotes & Sayings

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray. — Leonard Ravenhill

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. — Arlo Guthrie

Anna was grateful for Ursula - really she was. But Ursula, who was usually never blatantly unkind to Anna, still treated her as a foreign object, a means to the end of her son's happiness (if indeed "happy" was the word for what Bruno was, and Anna was almost sure it wasn't) and the vessel by which her grandchildren - whom she deeply loved - were carried into the world. The help that Ursula offered was for the children's sake, not Anna's. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds. — Stephen King

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see — Soren Kierkegaard

Where the fuck have the bunnies gone? — Sara Douglas

In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work. And in fact my hope was realized, up to a point; for I have seldom felt so carefree as I did then, walking for hours in the day through the thinly populated countryside, which stretches inland from the coast. — W.G. Sebald

Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment. — Jennifer Ackerman

Science fiction is the very literature of change. — Frederik Pohl

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility. — Naveen Jain

I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck. — Cher