Reessi Quotes & Sayings

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. — Ernest Lawrence

Think of King Jesus as our greatest doubter. Who saw the order of society and taught us to defy it. Who saw the ugly urges in ourselves and taught us to resist them. As we navigate through the powerful tides, doubt is our rudder. — Victor LaValle

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love ... — Jimmy Buffett

But I'd taken Lucien's lead and ordered what he had, something called sweet tea. — Morgan Matson

I have occupied this idle, empty winter with writing a story. It has been written to please myself, without thought of my own vanity or modesty, without regard for other people's feelings, without considering whether I shock or hurt the living, without scrupling to speak of the dead.

The world, I know, is changing. I am not indifferent to the revolution that has caught us in its mighty skirts, to the enormity of the flood that is threatening to submerge us. But what could I do? In the welter of the surrounding storm, I have taken refuge for a moment on this little raft, constructed with the salvage of my memory. I have tried to steer it into that calm haven of art in which I still believe. I have tried to avoid some of the rocks and sandbanks that guard its entrance.

[from the introduction] — Dorothy Bussy

I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen. — Laurie Halse Anderson

If I had the power to resurrect, I'd use it on you." Now he was the one whispering. "There's an important part of you that's dead: the part that cares. — Dia Reeves

We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My dreams of another. — Roman Payne

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. — Alastair Campbell

Maximize the potential of everyone close to you — Sunday Adelaja

The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager. — Sarah Silverman

Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity. Your identity, as it is no longer rooted in Being, becomes a vulnerable and ever-needy mental construct, which creates fear as the predominant underlying emotion. The one thing that truly matters is then missing from your life: awareness of your deeper self - your invisible and indestructible reality. — Eckhart Tolle