Raffaela Marie Quotes & Sayings

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! — Jasper Fforde

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion — Matthieu Ricard

Determination determines quality of life — Rajesh Walecha

The gutted ruins of the Amazing Kingdom were razed, and the land was replanted with native trees, including buttonwoods, pigeon plums, torchwoods, brittle palms, tamarinds, gumbo-limbos and mangroves. This restoration was accomplished in spite of rigid opposition from the Monroe County Commission, which had hoped to use the property as a public dump. — Carl Hiaasen

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. — Ellen Key

If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know? You can write a lot of records on one broken heart. — Jessie Baylin

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become. — Cal Ripken Jr.

A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her
a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light. — Danielle Crittenden

Sometimes at midnight, in the great silence of the sleep bound town, the doctor turned on his radio before going to bed for the few hours' sleep he allowed himself. And from the ends of the earth, across thousands of miles of land and sea, kindly, well-meaning speakers tried to voice their fellow-feeling, and indeed did so, but at the same time proved the utter incapacity of every man truly to share in the suffering that he cannot see. "Oran! Oran!" In vain the call rang over oceans, in vain Rieux listened hopefully; always the tide of eloquence began to flow, bringing home still more the unbridgeable gulf that lay between Grand and the speaker. "Oran, we're with you!" they called emotionally. But not, the doctor told himself, to love or to die together
and that's the only way ... — Albert Camus

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will. — Josef Pieper

The network employs thousands of humans. Surely one of them must be a ... woman ... female ... I don't know what you call them ... vagina doctor."
Melanie laughed. "Vagina doctor?"
He smiled, relieved to have lightened her mood a bit. "I've had very little contact with doctors in my lifetime. You know what I mean."
"They're called OB/GYNs."
"Thank you. — Dianne Duvall

See your reality as a life that has many tracks or potentials that you call "the future." — Lee Carroll