P204 Oblong Quotes & Sayings

Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you. — Tony Robbins

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story ... is you. — Jonathan Kent

Buddhist philosophy is an interpretation of ordinary human experience, but an interpretation which is not revealed by God nor discovered in the access of inspiration nor seen in a mystical light. Basically, Buddhist metaphysics is a very simple and natural elaboration of the implications of Buddha's own experience of enlightenment. Buddhism does not seek primarily to understand or to "believe in" the enlightenment of Buddha as the solution to all human problems, but seeks an existential and empirical participation in that enlightenment experience. It is conceivable that one might have the "enlightenment" without being aware of any discursive philosophical implications at all. — Thomas Merton

Quarterbacks should wear dresses — Jack Lambert

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival. — Jeffrey Eugenides

As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery ... I consider nature's facts
its beautiful and grotesque forms and events
in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy. — Annie Dillard

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way ... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself. — Laurie Halse Anderson

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act. — Norman Vincent Peale

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves. — Eugene H. Peterson

I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for a time, and then I was changed ... I felt there was no ease or comfort for me except faith, hope and love, and truly I felt very little of this. And then presently God gave me again comfort and rest for my soul ... And then again I felt the pain, and then afterwards the delight and joy, now the one and now the other, again and again, I suppose about twenty times. — Julian Of Norwich

I kind of missed out on those years when a lot of my friends did big backpacking trips around Europe and that sort of thing. So to be able to travel and see parts of the world on the job is kind of a double whammy. — Jai Courtney

I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge. — Sarah Parcak

It fills me with a strange emptiness knowing that I was enough for her when I was never enough for Eo. — Pierce Brown

Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces — Sunday Adelaja

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. — Susan B. Anthony