Ognissanti Holiday Quotes & Sayings

The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way into this marshy, pleasant terrain. You struggle against that push, and start to feel your stomach protest. It's not so much even a type of seriousness as it is a circumstance, into which you pass by slow degrees. I've never seen this sufficiently examined. It mutates into a less-unreal reality that still seems different, somehow, than being fully present. Self hate is rarely unconditional. — Darin Strauss

We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb. — Nicholas Breton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link. — Jane Hamilton

Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences. — Charley Harper

My today and each of my yesterdays, my rises and falls, are so diverse that I sometimes feel as if I had lived not one, but several existences, each one different from the others. — Stefan Zweig

I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation. — Mitch Albom

And the moral of that is "Once a goldfish, forever a goldfish. — Marissa Meyer

Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it. — Swami Vivekananda

There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel. — Richard Brautigan

When you love God for real, you will love His creation — Sunday Adelaja

The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train. — Ben Macintyre

It is a commonplace that good historians don't judge statements from past times by the standards of their own. — Richard Dawkins