Sampsell Showcase Quotes & Sayings

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes. — Julianne Moore

And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret. — Lauren Wolk

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it. — China Machado

She still smiles from time to time, definitely a charming smile, but it's always limited somehow, a smile that never goes beyond the moment. A high, invisible wall surrounds her, holding people at arm's length. — Haruki Murakami

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. — Edmund Spenser

Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A Chinese saying describes it well: "As far away as the horizon, and right in front of your face." You can run toward it forever, run faster and faster, and never get any closer. Only when you stop do you realize you are already there. That is exactly our collective situation right now. All of the solutions to the global crisis are sitting right in front of us, but they are invisible to our collective seeing, existing, as it were, in a different universe. When we are trapped in a story, we can only do the things that that story can recognize. Often we are aware of being trapped (the old story is ending) but don't have access to any alternative (we haven't yet inhabited a new story). — Charles Eisenstein