Richard Rohr Breathing Underwater Quotes & Sayings

You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're save. — Tove Jansson

With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, "Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot." (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304) — Boyd K. Packer

loved Leonidis Day, and was serious when he said he probably always had. — A.E. Via

What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you're trying to identify?Are you looking at little things to avoid big things? — John Steinbeck

I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read. — Colson Whitehead

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech. — Tom Scholz

I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite. — Hal Sutton

She died in a fire. I miss her like you ... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much. — Dennis Lehane

Capture the sacred moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita