Satoexchange Quotes & Sayings

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else. — Anne Lamott

I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub. — Jen Lancaster

Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power. This — Frank Herbert

for the first time, there burst upon me the idea that there might be real marvels all about us, that the visible world might be only a curtain to conceal huge realms uncharted by my very simple theology. And that started in me something with which, on and off, I have had plenty of trouble since - the desire for the preternatural, simply as such, the passion for the Occult. Not everyone has this disease; those who have will know what I mean. I once tried to describe it in a novel. It is a spiritual lust; and like the lust of the body it has the fatal power of making everything else in the world seem uninteresting while it lasts. It is probably this passion, more even than the desire for power, which makes magicians. — C.S. Lewis

The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us. — Billy Graham

In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly! — Gertrude The Great

No one wants advice - only corroboration. — John Steinbeck

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. — Alexander Smith

Kings are the slaves of history. — Leo Tolstoy

Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering. — Guru Gobind Singh

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain De Botton

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process. — Kathryn Bigelow

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. — Gina Barreca

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step. — Terry Goodkind