Ousel Peak Quotes & Sayings

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them. — Oswald Chambers

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress ... period. — Christine Lahti

That's the great, enduring challenge of our modern times, is it not, to marry faith and reason? So hard--so unreasonable--to root our lives upon a distant wisp of holiness. Faith is grand but impractical: How does one live an eternal idea in a daily way? It's so much easier to be reasonable. Reason is practical, its rewards are immediate, its workings are clear. But alas, reason is blind. Reason, on its own, leads us nowhere, especially in the face of adversity. How do we balance the two, how do we live with both faith and reason? — Yann Martel

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed. — Charles M. Schulz

Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job. — Bill Maher

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. — Gautama Buddha

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. — Julie Andrews Edwards

I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of. — Peter Hook

her chest began to rise and fall with a quickening of her breath, and her breath quickened because her heart fluttered - as if with her haste. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be. — Markus Zusak

Look on the bright side ... " David said.
I waited. Then he roared with laughter.
"What?"
"I can't think of anything."
"Asshole. — Kimberly Sabatini

Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism ... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end. — Carrie Mae Weems