Schlafen Quotes & Sayings

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become. — Bob Goff

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once. — Pico Iyer

Pornography is certainly more beautiful than eroticism. Eroticism is ugly. Eroticism is an ideology... there is nothing more boring than eroticism, it's worse than poetry, even. I say three cheers for pornography. — Pierre Guyotat

People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing. — Gene Pitney

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. — Michael Ondaatje

The love for God is the love for nature. — Lailah Gifty Akita

and I'm thrown backward. I land on my left elbow, hear it crack. Pain splinters through me. A Scavenger looms over me. Impossible to say whether — Lauren Oliver

Imagination rules the earth — Albert Einstein

Consider heart attacks. Even as recently as the 1950s, we had little idea of how to prevent or treat them. We didn't know, for example, about the danger of high blood pressure, and had we been aware of it we wouldn't have known what to do about it. The first safe medication to treat hypertension was not developed and conclusively demonstrated to prevent disease until the 1960s. We didn't know about the role of cholesterol, either, or genetics or smoking or diabetes. Furthermore, — Atul Gawande

Understanding is the essence of enlightenment.

-Harrar — Greg Keyes

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness. — Lauryn Hill

In reality, there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as our pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please. It is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it, perhaps, even within the abbeys of the realm. For even if I, an Aldermaston, could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. — Jeff Wheeler

A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years.
It didn't take long to come up with an answer. 'That's easy. I belong to a book club — Lorna Landvik

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. — Stewart Udall

And there, among the ruined splendor of Skyline Palace, Adamat saw a god weep for the hero of Adro. — Brian McClellan