Orphaning Quotes & Sayings

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream. — Mignon McLaughlin

Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55 — Marlene Steinberg

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. — Matthew Arnold

Friends with spiteful hearts and thousand eyes of evil, mock not my slumbering glory. I just might be the next in line to gain access to the secret fount of good riches. — Darmie Orem

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before. — Nancy Roman

I definitely believe in marriage. — Michael Strahan

Reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. — Gabrielle Zevin

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Books are but steeping stones to show you where other minds have been. — John Muir

The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. — Stanislas De Boufflers

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things. — Heraclitus

We either own our stories (even the messy ones), or we stand outside of them - denying our vulnerabilities and imperfections, orphaning the parts of us that don't fit in with who/what we think we're supposed to be, and hustling for other people's approval of our worthiness. Perfectionism is exhausting because hustling is exhausting. It's a never-ending performance. — Brene Brown

This is the silliest thing I've heard since the cat yoga craze a couple of years ago. I went right out and bought a cat yoga instruction book and tiny terry-cloth headband and renamed my girl cat 'Olive Neutered John,' which she didn't think was funny. Cats have no sense of humor. — Celia Rivenbark

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does. — Will Rogers

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's. — Steve Case