Piddock Stones Quotes & Sayings

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me. — Carl Jung

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see. — Marilyn Manson

So tell me, Tamara darlin', what other needs can I help you take care of? — Avery Flynn

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created. — Bryant H. McGill

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined ... they are individuals in their own right. — Jane Goodall

It's worth noting up front that I have always conceived of my mind as a digestive organ. A stomach for processing knowledge, if you will. As a looping, wrinkled mass, a human brain unmistakably looks like gray intestines, and it's within these thinking bowels that my experiences are broken down, consumed to become my life story. My thoughts occur as flavorful burps or acrid barf. The indigestible gristle and bone of my memories are expelled as these words. — Chuck Palahniuk

It is our human need - to circle back to the station of our sorrow. — Michael Hainey

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist. — John McGahern

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to. — Robert Breault

No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I can catch you at the bottom." He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. It was my turn. The ride was a dream, longer and steeper than the rail at home. The hall rose to meet me, and Char was there. He caught me and spun me around. — Gail Carson Levine

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring. — Emily James Smith Putnam

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. — Sorin Cerin

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove. — Rob Bell