Pivoting Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole

Real existence, real knowledge, and real love are eternally connected with one another, the three in one: where one of them is, the others also must be; they are the three aspects of the One without a second - the Existence - Knowledge - Bliss. — Swami Vivekananda

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination. — Kevin Henkes

Lying makes life more interesting. Not to mention easier, for the most part. — April Genevieve Tucholke

He was so far inside of me, body, heart, and soul, that I was almost afraid of how deep our connection was. It was about more than sex. It was about us, and we were a lot like our sex in a way. It hurt. It felt amazing.
I never wanted it to end. — T.M. Frazier

When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted — Rumi

Harry didn't see how he could - yet he sometimes had the horrible feeling that Snape could read minds. — J.K. Rowling

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud? — Patrick Rothfuss

Zen: 'I kinda went about it all wrong last night, didn't I?
Melody: 'Kinda? It was a total fustercluck.'
— Megan McCafferty

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent. — Bethenny Frankel

Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292) — Rebecca Goldstein

Luther examined the Great Commandment, "'Live the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all yor strength and with all your mind.'; and, 'Love yor neighbor as yourself'" (Luke 10:27) Then he asked himself, What is the Great Trangression?" Some answer this question by saying that great sin is murder, adultery, blasphemy, or unbelief. Luther disagreed. He concluded that if the Great Commandment was to live Gid with all the heart, than the Great Transgression was to fail to love God with all the heart. He saw a balance between great obligations and great sins. — R.C. Sproul

Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are. — Charles De Lint

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. — Ambrose Bierce

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. — Henry Rollins