Nobuko Needlepoint Quotes & Sayings

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. — Thomas Merton

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least. — Charles Bowden

Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is earned. — Debasish Mridha

In the genre of "making you feel like you're not having an awesome American high school experience," the worst offender is actually a song: John Cougar Mellencamp's "Jack & Diane." It's one of those songs - like Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" - that everyone knows all the words to without ever having chosen to learn them. — Mindy Kaling

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language. — Peter Bichsel

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience. — Marty Rubin

I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile. — Sonja Lyubomirsky

I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it. — Tasha Smith

He had surrendered to it, on a few rare occasions through the years, with women he had thought he liked. He had been left feeling an angry emptiness - because he had sought an act of triumph, though he had not known of what nature, but the response he received was only a woman's acceptance of a casual pleasure, and he knew too clearly that what he had won had no meaning. He was left, not with a sense of attainment, but with a sense of his own degradation. He grew to hate his desire. He fought it. He came to believe the doctrine that this desire was wholly physical, a desire, not of consciousness, but of matter, and he rebelled against the thought that his flesh could be free to choose and that its choice was impervious to the will of his mind. — Ayn Rand

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down. — Mona Caird

I'm always aware of mortality. — Marc Almond

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result. — Randy Pausch