Pedro Suarez Vertiz Quotes & Sayings

I don't think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn't. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you're not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious. — Claire Hennessy

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. — Michel De Montaigne

I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people wake up and they try to do what's right for their relationships, whether it's marriage or family. They try to do what's right for their job. They try to make a better world for those around them, and that's what I want to write about. — Nicholas Sparks

Some people are known, they have the platform and presence, but still remain irrelevant. They know you and what you do, but they don't need you or your offering. I see too many people with a platform but without substance, again this is not sustainable. Lack of substance can only relegate your talent or skill towards the league of the mediocre, if at all you become much by superficial branding then you will become the best of the worst. You don't have what it takes but you depend on your ability to sell substandard offerings to the market. It will not last for long, but quickly become irrelevant. — Archibald Marwizi

But it never really occurred to me to ask myself whether this was what I wanted too, — J.P. Delaney

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter. — John Darnielle

Everyone uses their own dictionary. — Robert Jacoby

It's one of the things I like about being in France, it brings out the best in me, and always surprises me-and even when I think it won't be good for me, it is. — Mark Greenside

Snoopy didn't start off being a Beagle. It's just that 'beagle' is a funny word. — Charles M. Schulz

I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone. — David Hume

If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen ... A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting
only the deeply personal and familiar. — John Steinbeck

Thank you, Lord, for never turning me away. For never getting scared, for never lashing out when I hurt you, for always being there with arms wide open, ready to take me back. — Colleen Coble

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw. — Shunryu Suzuki

Borders are fluid things; they help define our identities, and yet so often we use our identities to push up against borders and redraw them. — Jack Shenker

[..] being the most attractive rarely meant being the most beautiful — Alice Walsh