P41 Quotes & Sayings

The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing. — A.D. Posey

I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?"
Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War. — Rick Riordan

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were. — David Brooks

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately. — Joy Bryant

Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty. — James Sharp

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds. — Stephen King

Every day is a new adventure so embrace it fully with with your whole heart and soul. — Crystal Tyler

Penny: PROBLEM. Spider in the clean laundry basket and now it's gone. I have to burn down the house. Gray: No. Penny: You're not grasping the severity of this situation. The spider is huge and it's going to eat the cat. Gray: Then the spider will rightfully take our cat's place and become our beloved spider cat. Penny: This is on you. And remember that thing I said you could do to me tonight? It's off the table. — Jill Shalvis

This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect. — Cheryl Strayed

But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I wouldn't change a thing. I want you. I'll always want you. — Siobhan Davis

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit. — Tori Amos

In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle. — John Steinbeck