Ouwehand Quotes & Sayings

It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts — Saulo Ribeiro

Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey. — Ellen DeGeneres

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have learned how to enjoy the minute particulars of life once again, the grace of a hot cup of coffee, the presence of a friend, the blessing of having a new cake of soap or an hour without pain. Such humble experience is the stuff that many of the very best stories are made of. If we think we have no stories it is because we have not paid enough attention to our lives. Most of us live lives that are far richer and more meaningful than we appreciate. — Rachel Naomi Remen

MEDITATION is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentry into society — Thich Nhat Hanh

Dream 2 Defy! Extreme is not a style but a way of life. — Jeff Hardy

I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph. — Augusten Burroughs

The way communication works is changing. — Hubert Burda

this preoccupation with order, control, — Richard Rohr

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential. — Lauren Groff

We focus on the best, fun, and happy things, and people want that. Being happy never goes out of style, — Lilly Pulitzer

The dead" we say as if speaking
of "the people" who
gave up on making history
simply to get through
Something dense and null groan
without echo underground
and owl-voiced I cry Who
are these dead people these
lovers who if ever did
listen no longer answer
: We : — Adrienne Rich

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life. — Richard Wright