Otmastitelite Quotes & Sayings

The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally. — Lorrie Moore

Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?" She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the room, still watching me. "It's the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can't hide it. And people either are or they aren't. — Laura Anderson Kurk

I think every part of our lives begins at an energetic level. Like creativity. You can't separate anything from that archetypal process. — Caroline Myss

When you welcome your emotions as teachers,
every emotion brings good news,
even the ones that are painful. — Gary Zukav

-I bar the candles, ... I bar the magic-lantern
business. — James Joyce

God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part. — Eric Butterworth

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last. — Robert Breault

We are a nation of laws. — Barack Obama

So things remained until one day, many years later, I happened upon a line in a poem by Heine: "Death is the cooling night." That childhood memory, lost for so long, suddenly restored itself to my quivering heart, returning freshly washed, in limpid clarity, never again to leave me. If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own. Heine put into words the feeling I had as a child when I lay napping in the morgue. And that, I tell myself, is literature. — Yu Hua

As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed in my soul. To me these were as universal, dependable, and invariable as the laws of nature. Together they constituted The Forty Rules of the Religion of Love, which could be attained through love and love only. — Elif Shafak

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around. — Eric Bristow

The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation. — Eknath Easwaran

In all kinds of composition, there are two things necessary: first, to have something to say; second, to say it. — J. Willis Westlake

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology ... — Susan Sontag