Motherers Quotes & Sayings

we play the cards we've been dealt - as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says - based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards. — Susan Meissner

The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread to make a show of representing the whole. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper. — Gautama Buddha

It is vain for painters ... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her. — Suzanne Collins

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source. — Tony Abbott

There are many elder sons and elder daughters who are lost while still at home. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts. — Princess Diana

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression. — Eknath Easwaran

Cultural purity is an oxymoron (Saunders just quoted this). — Doug Saunders