Orffs Quotes & Sayings

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there. — Donald Miller

I can't believe you're actually here. That you are with me. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Wanting to get out of pain is the pain; it is not the "reaction" of an "I" distinct from the pain. When you discover this, the desire to escape "merges" into the pain itself and vanishes. Discounting aspirin for the moment, you cannot remove your head from a headache as you can remove your hand from a flame. "You" equals "head" equals "ache." When you actually see that you are the pain, pain ceases to be a motive, for there is no one to be moved. It becomes, in the true sense, of no consequence. It hurts - period. — Alan W. Watts

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. — John Henry Jowett

No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people,
if you don't love yourself then it can never be enough. — Shannon Kaiser

You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves. — Katherine Marsh

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts. — Richard Burr

...but I say whatever / one loves, is — Sappho

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. — Michael Mandelbaum