Ouch Urgent Quotes & Sayings

What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity. — Stephen A. Diamond

I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside. — Anthony Liccione

Holiness consists in doing God's will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness. — Mother Teresa

Everyone is a raconteur without realizing it. We speak to our friends, we speak to our doctors and therapists about the nothing-meaning nonsense that goes on in our lives, but the difference in telling a story and complaining about the ills of one's life is in the delivery. We can talk about how someone slighted you at work, or we can talk about how that person looked when they promptly fell down the stairs a moment after disdaining you. There, you see, is the difference: people will often notice the main but not the nuance; they will notice the face of the person yelling at them and the pitch of their shouts, but will not notice the comfort that the ululations of agony and twisted limbs lying on the bottom stile can promise. — Michelle Franklin

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart. — Mstislav Rostropovich

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust. — Philip Roth

Piracy of Bollywood; or Bollywood of Piracy, Tough to Say. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

Unhealthy people tend to be unhappy people. — Toni Sorenson

Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody. — Dorothy Baker

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing. — Pauline Collins

This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn't just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need - it was an offering. — Rachael Wade

I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such an idiot.' I don't say things like that anymore. Those put-downs, even if they're in jest, are little bullets of negativity that you don't need in your life. — Mariska Hargitay