Raye Zaragoza Quotes & Sayings

Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him. — Paulo Coelho

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness. — Amit Ray

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup. — Spalding Gray

The darkest clouds precipitate the most rain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s. — Brad Renfro

How to care for the injured body,
the kind of body that can't hold
the content it is living? — Claudia Rankine

Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'. — Pope John Paul II

Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate the joy of being in love. Unless you're single & lonely then it's called Laundry Day. — Dane Cook

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music. — Chuck Mangione

That means that violation of her purity lowers the honor rating of the male and, ultimately, of the entire family. In such cultures, rape by those outside the family is a tool of humiliation and shame that shreds the fabric of family life. — Walter F. Taylor Jr.

April showers bring May flowers — Chris Cleave

All the men in the family went to the school, his Hampstead grandmother said (his only grandmother, Sylvie's mother having died long ago), as if it were a law, written down in ancient times. Teddy supposed his own son would have to go there too, although this boy existed in a future that Teddy couldn't even begin to imagine. He didn't need to, of course, for in that future he had no sons, only a daughter, Viola, something which would be a sadness for him although he never spoke of it, certainly not to Viola, who would have been volubly affronted. — Kate Atkinson

Time heals all things. — Champ Bailey