Plopped Em Quotes & Sayings

However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings. — Robert Thurman

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends. — Christopher Knight

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it. — Carl Sandburg

One thing it was not: love at first sight. He didn't believe in such. He wasn't a believer in romance, sentimental coincidences, "meanings" snatched out of the air. He certainly didn't believe in destiny, he was a gambler by nature and you know that destiny is just chance you try to manipulate for your own profit. Yet — Joyce Carol Oates

our "gathering" - or what people used to call "church" - is an aspect of what we do, but not the only thing. The gathering is where we . . . gather. That's it. It's a place that anyone can come to and not feel any pressure at any level. — Hugh Halter

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool. — Josh Billings

It is a law of nature that a dream carried for too long inside you must, eventually, begin to rot. — Neil Bartlett

Am I about to feel really, really stupid? — Adam Savage

I hear my mother's voice echo
you're all the sunlight
that's ever been in my life. — Helene Cardona

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times. — R.D. Laing

Hardship is only easy to endure when it is someone else's! — Stephen Richards

Although Grandpa never put it in words for me, one thing I learned from him was that being admired gives you more power than being feared. — Dean Koontz

It's not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn't do it. — Charles Taylor

Pain has its own timetable. You can't rush it. You can't forgive somebody before you're ready. You can't tell anybody else how to reach that point. — Diane Wilson

This man belongs to me, I want him! — Bram Stoker