Roumain Peters Quotes & Sayings

Everyone is psychic to some degree, and really successful paranormal investigators even if they do not realize it are using their own psychic ability to sense the environment. — Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Live to write. Write to inspire. Inspire to write. — Chi Wen

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered. — Edward De Bono

Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief. — Charles Capps

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid. — Robert Charles Wilson

Voice mail was invented by confident people to make unconfident people say stupid shit that gets taped and haunts us forever. — A.S. King

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet

God gives strength to the weak souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Social media is about connecting with people, not collecting people. — Karen Clark

The upside of culling people from my life is that my focus has become very clear. My vision has become razor sharp. I now work to see people, not as I'd rewrite them, but as they have written themselves. I see them for who they are. And for who I am with them. Because it's not merely about surrounding myself with people who treat me well. It's also about surrounding myself with people whose self-worth, self-respect and values inspire me to elevate my own behavior. — Shonda Rhimes

dokhodyaga, a 'goner' in Gulag-speak, one of the soon-to-be-dead, emaciated — Katherine Brabon

See that tree?" It was a stubby cypress tree, all bent and twisted.
"Yeah, I see it."
"It's my favorite tree."
"It's not that great a tree," I said.
"That's it. That's exactly it. It's like me. The wind beat the holy crap out of it when it was just a sapling. Never could straighten itself out again." He sort of smiled at me. "But, Zach, it didn't die." He looked like maybe he wanted to cry. But he didn't. "It's alive."
"Maybe it should have just given up."
"That tree didn't know how to do that. It only knew how to live. Crooked. Bent. Taller trees dwarfing it even more. It just wanted to live. I named it, you know?"
He was waiting for me to ask what he'd named it
but I decided I didn't want to ask.
"Zach," he whispered. "The tree's name is Zach."[p. 135] — Benjamin Alire Saenz

The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning. — William James