Ricocheting Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream"
"I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up"
"Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-"
"Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages."
"You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look! — Arthur Golden

As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing. — Bell Hooks

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being ... my essence ... is a part of all Being, all Essence. — Nancy J. Napier

It's your words that gave me courage. It became my light that would guide me towards the right path again. -Jellal Fernandes — Hiro Mashima

God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets. — Michael S. Horton

Deep down you've never changed from what you are."
"And what's that?"
"Alone," said Ash. "Outcast to both worlds, demon and human... I'm not afraid of you. I never have been. You're the best person I've ever known, Parvati. In all my lives. — Sarwat Chadda

He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail. — E. M. Forster

When you change the way you see yourself as a speaker, the speaker your audience sees will change." CARMINE GALLO You — Carmine Gallo

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending. — Jim Rohn

The sense of literary creation is to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find in the objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern and appreciate in far-off times when every trifle of our plain everyday life will become exquisite and festive in its own right: the times when a man who might put on the most ordinary jacket of today will be dressed up for an elegant masquerade. — Vladimir Nabokov

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom — Logan Pearsall Smith

Victory!? There is no victory in war! War takes everything and gives nothing! I only wish my words were as destructive as you would have me believe! — Lindsay Buroker

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to. — Robert Fisk

Her lids tremble and her eyeballs look like they might disappear into her head. — Rebecca Stead

You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. — Cheryl Strayed