Omstead Service Quotes & Sayings

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. — A. N. Wilson

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash. — Adyashanti

I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys. — Ellen Gilchrist

The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Shame is a soul eating emotion. — C. G. Jung

One of the reasons so many people are suffering from stress is not that they are doing stressful things but that they allow so little time for silence. — John O'Donohue

For all who see God, may God go with you. For all who embrace life, may life return your affection. For all who seek a right path, may the path be found, And the courage to take it, step by step. — Wayne Arnason

The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission. — Homer Hickam

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all ... The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being. — Huston Smith

It is a very strong rule in drama, and in life, that people remain true to their basic natures. They change, and their change is essential for drama, but typically they only change a little, taking a single step towards integrating a forgotten or rejected quality into their natures. — Christopher Vogler

As Patrick Swayze (as Dalton, in the movie Roadhouse) once said, "Be nice, until it is time not to be nice. — Kris Wilder