Orlansky Quotes & Sayings

Stop treating your pain like it's something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, the you can heal it. — Leigh Bardugo

He seemed grown-up, compared to the boys at school, and although he was not handsome, or even particularly good-looking - there were still some scars on his face from the skin trouble he had when he was younger - his face was agreeable because it was so ... What was the word? Kind, perhaps. Or gentle. But strong, too. He was genuinely glad to see all of Sue's family, and when Sue entered the room and he helped her on with her coat, Jean thought he acted as if her sister was someone precious to him. — Beverly Cleary

Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down. — Joey Comeau

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable. — Derek Bok

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true. — Oscar Niemeyer

Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center. — Alexandra Sirowy

Sir Oliver - that knows more of law than honesty - I — Robert Louis Stevenson

If I paid too much attention to naysayers or let encouragers bloat my ego, I'd lose focus on what mattered: the company. — Anonymous

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. — E.W. Howe

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don't have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible. — Lupita Nyong'o

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard? — Marcus Aurelius

Making the world safe for hypocrisy. — Thomas Wolfe

If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image. — Ketch Secor