Obon Quotes & Sayings

Swim in the stream of beauty of love to reach the shores of life. — Debasish Mridha

I learned that life can change in an instant. It can flip over like a box of Styrofoam peanuts, and you're left scrambling to gather enough insulation to survive, before it all blows away. After that, you sink down into what's left, like a fragile glass vase with a crack in it, trying to avoid further damage.

One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones.... — Lisa Wingate

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. — Alvin Ailey

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Kierkegaard writes, ... riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep's clothing pretending to be security against anxieties and they become then the object of anxiety ... they secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the wolf which is put to tending the sheep secures them ... against the wolf. — Richard J. Foster

I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality ... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it? — Jessie J.

You will never become a mighty man of God, unless you give all you have got for the Lord. — Sunday Adelaja

Shane raised his brows when he set eyes on my apron. "Been roped into galley duties?" "Nah. I slaughtered Leo with an electric carving knife. I put this on so I could dismember his body without mucking up my t-shirt. — Gillibran Brown

Priorities need to change at different stages of our life if we want to grow and evolve. — Apurva Purohit

All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior. — Paul Broun

I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it. — Rachel Vincent

My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you know, oshogatsu. We had obon festivals every year. All those things. — Scott Fujita