Parresh Quotes & Sayings

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one. — Mahatma Gandhi

Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

It must be a real betrayal, when your body turns against you.
I wonder if she likes flowers.
All the bits of you that can go wrong ...
I don't like flowers, not really. I like growing them, but that's only because I like seeing them blossom, and seeing them die ...
But oh, how I do love to play God. — Neil Gaiman

As young people, she says, we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. — Chuck Palahniuk

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal

I take refuge in the Buddha, that means I take refuge in the courage and the potential of fearlessness, of removing all the armor that covers this awakeness of mine. I am awake; I will spend my life taking this armor off. Nobody else can take it off because nobody else knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it's sewed up tight, where it's going to take a lot of work to get that particular iron thread untied. — Pema Chodron

And is that what love looks like
all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?"
"Sometimes it is. — David Nicholls

Funny how quickly the mind moves, but how slowly time does when you're in pain. — Josephine Angelini

Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have. — M. R. DeHaan

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life. — Jose Parla

In a desperate bid to reestablish civilized talk and decorum, Miss Hisselpenny said, quite loudly, I see they are bringing in the fish course. What a pleasant surprise. I do so love fish. Don't you Mr., uh, Dubh. It is so very, um, salty. — Gail Carriger

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. — Jim Rohn