Persikkapiirakka Quotes & Sayings

In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more. — Nicolas Bouvier

Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen. — Anne Douglas Sedgwick

And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ. — Watchman Nee

I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying. — Markus Zusak

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A broken bone will never break in the same place again...it heals stronger. Be that bone brother. — Franklin E. Wales

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering. — Byron Katie

Yes, Brooke, sometimes friends can get you into trouble. But a good friend will always come and to your rescue. — Gretchen Preston

When she was naked she generally found her body rather beautiful, although she could never in a million years have admitted this to anyone. In clothes, in front of other people, she felt ashamed of her weight, her sloppiness, always something, but it was more because of what she felt they saw when they looked at her. Now — Judith Rossner

The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich." — Linda McQuaig