Ravensberg Nordrhein Westfalen Quotes & Sayings

Among the people, it is the custom for a new wife to make moccasins for the husband's mother. When the mother accepts the gift, she welcomes the new wife into the family."
Jesse blushed at the message her innocent gift had sent to the old woman. Rides the Wind watched Jesse carefully as he concluded, "My mother accepts the gift you have given. She says that she welcomes you as my wife."
His dark eyes met hers briefly, but then he picked up Two Mothers and said, "My son and I will say good night to Sun, now. — Stephanie Grace Whitson

The way out is a very simple change in direction. You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you. Human experience may be stimulated or catalyzed by external situations, but the source is within. Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you. Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within. Right — Sadhguru

Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment. — Raymond E. Feist

I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that. — Richard Rodriguez

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. — William Osler

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive? — Saul Bellow

This only I know, that woe is me except in Thee: not only without but within myself also; and all abundance, which is not my God, is emptiness to me. — Augustine Of Hippo

I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur, and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood. — Hunter S. Thompson

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.' — Bruce Jenner

Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being. — Oliver Sacks

To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center believes ... that there is any measurable impact on hurricane numbers or activity from global warming. — Stanley B. Goldenberg

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people. — Paul Wellstone

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. — Milan Kundera

BETTER PRETEND TO BE A NOBODY AND BE SOMEBODY THAN TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEBODY AND ARE A NOBODY, BECAUSE MY LORD WAS A SOMEBODY, BUT LIVED LIKE A NOBODY AS A RESULT EXALTED AS THE GREATEST EVER LIVED. — James C. Uwandu