Rough Hewn Furniture Quotes & Sayings

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them. — Mandy Hale

Coincidence only carries so far, and then you just have to figure that the universe wants to fuck you up as much as possible — Tom Piccirilli

It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die. — Rob Bell

all that was needed was a feeling of primitive and as simple as that of love — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve. — Basho Matsuo

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact. — Bill James

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away. — Adrian Rogers

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like. — William Zinsser

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle. — Ben Edlund

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth. — Kurt Vonnegut

Once I stopped expecting to like it, once I stopped demanding that losing weight be easy or pleasant, once I stopped waiting for the band to start playing, paying attention to what went into my mouth became tolerable. Because I wasn't waiting for it to get better. It's NEVER going to get better. It just . . . sucks. — Shonda Rhimes

When our attitude towards our material possessions and wealth is not proper, it can lead to an extreme attachment towards such things as our property, houses and belongings. This can lead to an inability to feel contented. If that happens, then one will always remain in a state of dissatisfaction, always wanting more. In a way, one is then really poor, because the suffering of poverty is the suffering of wanting something and feeling the lack of it. — Dalai Lama XIV

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines. — Donald A. Norman