Rittgers Tree Quotes & Sayings

What if you offered your body love instead of criticism? What if you offered it some compassion instead of insults? What if you saw the decades of abuse, wear-and-tear, and aging as cause for more love instead of less? What if you acknowledged the thousands of miles it has trekked through this rough and wild world and you felt nothing but appreciation and love for all it has withstood for you? What if you offered it more sleep, more hot baths, better foods, healthy exercise, fun activities, and more rest? What if you gave it more love? What if you stopped punishing it for belonging to you? — Emily Maroutian

You're an opportunistic little slut, that's what you are."
"That's not fair. I had no idea she'd give me your job."
"Oh, you just fucked her husband for the fun of it?"
"Have you seen his ass? — Marshall Thornton

In the end ... hatred will consume, divide and destroy even the strongest of nations. It's devastating powers has destroyed in the past & still can destroy today. — Timothy Pina

When she holds that thought up to the light and sees how pathetic it is, how cravenly equivocating, she sinks into black depression. From — M.R. Carey

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose. — Marlo Morgan

There were times when you could feel that the world would be a better place if Annagramma got the occasional slap around the ear. The silly unthinking insults, her huge lack of interest in anyone other than herself, the way she treated everyone as if they were slightly deaf and a bit stupid ... it could make your blood boil. But you put up with it because every once in a while you saw through it all. Inside there was this worried, frantic little face watching the world like a bunny watching a fox, and screaming at it in the hope that it would go away and not hurt her. — Terry Pratchett

Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Glory is of no use to the dead -Darth Bane — Drew Karpyshyn

Unforunately, string theorists are, at present, at a loss to explain why ten dimensions are singled out. The answer lies deep within mathematics, in an area called modular functions. Whenever we manipulate the KSV loop diagrams created by interacting strings, we encounter these strange modular functions, where the number ten appears in the strangest places. These modular functions are as mysterious as the man who invented them, the mystic from the East. Perhaps if we better understood the work of this Indian genius, we would understand why we live in our present universe. — Michio Kaku

I estimate the number [of incest victims] to be somewhere between ten and twenty million Americans... — Susan Forward

I love revisions ... We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. — Katherine Paterson

We have two Governments in Washington: one run by the elected people - which is a minor part - and one run by the moneyed interests, which control everything. — Studs Terkel

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. — John Ensign

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories. — John Green