Riposo 72 Quotes & Sayings

I've heard it said that prayer is the act of talking to God, while meditation is the act of listening. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can't quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death. — Marya Hornbacher

Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to survive more than one season. I thought we would be different. We were, I guess, but not in the way I thought. I truly believed that we would never let each other go. The young are so dumb. — Harlan Coben

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's okay to be insufferable as long as you're aware that you're being insufferable. At least that's how I justified it to myself. — Jessica Knoll

We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak ... and we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system. — Gregor Strasser

You want to know my name?
a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat. — Hsu Hsuan

I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve. — John Piper

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

especially given to dirtying the butter (a thing quite superfluous, according to Captain Burt's description of Highland butter). — Andrew Lang

What must it be like to be craved that way? To return that feeling with such ferocity? — Ella Frank