Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes Mindset Quotes & Sayings

I invoke the other's protection, the other's return: let the other appear, take me away, like a mother who comes looking for her child, from this worldly brilliance, from this social infatuation, let the other restore to me "the religious intimacy, the gravity" of the lover's world. (X once told me that love had protected him against worldliness: coteries, ambitions, advancements, interferences, alliances, secessions, roles, powers: love had made him into a social catastrophe, to his delight.) — Roland Barthes

GOD is watching us, from a Distance ... — Bette Midler

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

She was only really a female to him.
But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the female in her, which no man had ever been. Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female, despising her or ignoring her altogether. Men were awfully kind to Constance Reid or to Lady Chatterley; but not to her womb they weren't kind. And he took no notice of Constance or of Lady Chatterley; he just softly stroked her loins or her breasts. — D.H. Lawrence

We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering. — Ajahn Chah

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt

The truth is, she's still waiting for her heart to get on board with the decision her heart has made. — Jennifer E. Smith

The Arab Spring whose seeds failed to bloom anything other than a chaotic mess that requires only blood to grow has contributed immensely to the rising numbers of these migrants. — Aysha Taryam

For a moment
he became smoke.
How intimate,
now,
the cloudy sky. — Izumi Shikibu

Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man, — David Herbert Donald

I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies. — Halsey

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy ... — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all. — Tad Williams