Oihana Maikai Quotes & Sayings

Fear isn't rational. That's what makes it fear, not common sense. — Anonymous

You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve. — Ed Vargo

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain. — Rama Swami

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. — Paul Westerberg

I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all. May it be among the dispensations of His Providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days; may her ways beways of pleasantness, and all her paths be peace. — Martin Van Buren

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. — Edward McKendree Bounds

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice. — James Patterson

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.' — John Dewey

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go. — Stephenie Meyer

Women were accustomed to making substantial efforts to please men, while men spent comparatively little of theirs trying to please women. The reports women received from their mothers and married older sisters about intimacy with men probably suggested that it was not all sweetness and light. Living with men required something of the caution needed for handling wild animals. Even for women who were skilled at managing them, there was always an element of danger because of their power and unpredictability. So it would not be at all surprising if women were less troubled by distracting thoughts of the opposite sex. — Kate Cooper