Scagliola Moscato Quotes & Sayings

The demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. — John Irving

All languages that derive from Latin form the word "compassion" by combining the prefix meaning "with" (com-) and the root meaning "suffering" (Late Latin, passio). In other languages, Czech, Polish, German, and Swedish, for instance - this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefix combined with the word that means "feeling".
In languages that derive from Latin, "compassion" means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer. Another word with approximately the same meaning, "pity", connotes a certain condescension towards the sufferer. "To take pity on a woman" means that we are better off than she, that we stoop to her level, lower ourselves.
That is why the word "compassion" generally inspires suspicion; it designates what is considered an inferior, second-rate sentiment that has little to do with love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love. — Milan Kundera

I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying. — Neale Donald Walsch

Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary. — Gregory Skovoroda

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves. — Ellen Sussman

There is nothing wrong with technology. It's a gift! I don't think we should keep our kids away from the modern conveniences of our time, but I do believe it's time to regain some balance. Children can benefit from technology, but they need nature. Let them have their video games and Internet, but make sure they are getting equal amounts of mud, dirt, sticks, puddles, free play and imagination. — Brooke Hampton

I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities. — Avigdor Lieberman

You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage. — Jacob Hoye

Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody's staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this. — Rachel Caine

You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow. — Anne Rice

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so. — Frank Chodorov

I'm not scared because I can't give you my love in return, I'm scared because I love you so much sometimes it's hard to breathe."
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"Everything I have to give, it's yours. It's always been yours. — Tara Sivec

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings. — Nikki Rosen

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self. — Edgar Cayce