Pettersson Lagom Quotes & Sayings

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people. — Mahatma Gandhi

Always be true to your heart! — Mary Quast

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human. — Oscar Wilde

The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking. — J. R. Smith

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be. — Ray Lamontagne

Nothingness
... there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed ... — Muse

When I'm reasonably balanced in my personal and spiritual life, I don't have difficulty finding compassion for my addicted patients. — Gabor Mate

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies. — Marilynne Robinson

Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to book them hotel rooms. When you work with your friends, you just call them up and they come over and you record and then you go out to see a movie. — Moby

For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ... We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or later it is beaten out of us, the glory faded, and by the age of seven most of us are nothing but wretched little adults. — Steven Millhauser

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences. — George Carlin

But life can't be about holding on to the bad things. It has to be about grabbing on to the good things and letting the bad things go. — Sophie Kinsella

The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these. — Florence Nightingale

Here, too, I recognized-easily, from firsthand experience, since this kind of thing happened at my age-the heat of the moment, the very instant you knew you should be feeling something but, for various reasons, partly due to inexperience, partly to a desynchronized, muddled teenage constitution, this emotion, however hard you tried to express it, stayed uncomfortably stuck in your heart, only half there and only half felt, just like my love for that girl across the street, the feeling I was trying to coax out of myself the way you might squeeze a toothpaste tube you'd decided to roll from the bottom up but that, distracted, and in a rush, you finally ended up pressing any which way. — Jean-Christophe Valtat

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; — Thomas Paine