Ogen Stock Quotes & Sayings

What a remarkable reminder that none of us can actually control what happens. We can only control the grace with which we react. — Amy Robach

Truly good people, which are very hard to find, don't think they're good people. They believe that they're doing what anyone else would do. The truth is, ninety percent of us are hiding from the world and our true selves. We force ourselves to do the "right" thing because we're afraid of the consequences of doing what we really want to do. — J.J. McAvoy

I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way. — Missy Franklin

All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories. — Min Jin Lee

It isn't easy, giving birth to our spiritual potential. Spiritual labor can be very arduous - one holy instant at a time, when we give up, surrender, soften, don't care if we're right, forgo our impatience, detach from the opinions and prizes of the world, and rest in the arms of God. But the end result is the love of our lives. We begin — Marianne Williamson

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. — Milan Kundera

Somebody said that if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. — John Ortberg

bitch that I am, vicious, scheming-
horror to freeze the heart
oh how I wish
that first day my mother brought me into the light
some black whirlwind had rushed me out to the mountains
or into the surf where the roaring breakers crash and drag
and the waves had swept me off before all this had happened — Homer

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place. — Bob Dylan

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. — Ida B. Wells