Mystik Spiral Quotes & Sayings

I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate. — Artie Lange

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. — Frederick Lenz

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree. — Neil Gaiman

Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free
And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
Glad of the sun and rain,
Upright, serene, humane,
Contented with the fortune of a day. — Bliss Carman

You don't put demands on people and you never say anything negative
ever. So many people suck the life out of everyone they're around, but you don't do that. You give people strength just by being you. — Matthew Quick

Words just confused things
when they held each other like this, it made so much more sense. — Tere Michaels

It was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to drink would have been thought a mark of cowardice and of incapacity for self-control. A man was expected even to get drunk if necessary, and to keep his tongue and his temper no matter how much he drank. The strong character would only become more cautious and more silent under the influence of drink; the weak man would immediately show his weakness. I am told the curious fact that in the English army at the present day officers are expected to act very much after the teaching of the old Norse poet; a man is expected to be able on occasion to drink a considerable amount of wine or spirits without showing the effects of it, either in his conduct or in his speech. "Drink thy share of mead; speak fair or not at all" - that was the old text, and a very sensible one in its way. — Eoghan Odinsson