Penhascos Quotes & Sayings

You are not special. You don't get to not show up. You don't get to avoid difficult decisions. You get to climb into the much with the rest of us. So, you want to be in charge, fine. Reach deep down, find a backbone, and handle your own shit. Otherwise, step down and make way for someone who would actually matter. — Ilona Andrews

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave. — Bertrand Russell

One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity. — Ufuoma Apoki

I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an effort far greater than the movement of my eyes. You are here, I would say to myself, no part of this moment is melting into the future. You are only here and nowhere else. But I could never believe it. So I would take a photo to stop the world. So that I could keep moving — Leah Stewart

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

We are muddled into war. — David Lloyd George

Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do. — Robin Marantz Henig