Saint Birgitta Of Sweden Quotes & Sayings

Patron Saint of Failures St Birgitta of Sweden. — Alain De Botton

Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them. — Paulo Coelho

alignment is the necessary condition before empowering the individual will empower the whole team. Empowering the individual when there is a relatively low level of alignment worsens the chaos and makes managing the team even more difficult: — Peter M. Senge

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials. — Tom Sharpe

Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those who wished the past were present, and loathed by those who wished the present past. — Sarah Perry

There will be time enough some day to work less. — Pierce Brosnan

Instead, Hester had been presented at court, — Sylvia Day

It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau

XXIV
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never-"
"You lie" he cried
And ran on. — Stephen Crane

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. — Anne Sexton

I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don't offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it's "please mentor me; I need my shot." But they don't offer anything in return. — Ryan Blair

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic

I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it. Max Roach, who, of course, played with him on all those EmArcy recordings, held a concert in Baltimore for Clifford long after Clifford died. Max was still disbelieving so many years later. The concert was supposed to bring closure. But Max was so outrageously emotional that day. He had quite a few eruptions and was very emotional about what had happened so many years earlier. Like everyone, he remained disbelieving. — Helen Merrill

Knitting is still trying to teach me
That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine. — Jeff Foxworthy

I like you too, despite my better judgment." "You'd be surprised how often I hear that. — Marissa Meyer