Schweller Fiat Quotes & Sayings

At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of
cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what
remains its critically profound gift to the present lies in its
simplistic roots of the past. — S. Kelley Harrell

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention. — Drew Barrymore

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day. — Michael Azerrad

Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of. — Donn Moomaw

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

All true love and all sacrifice are
in their essence Nature's contradiction of the primary egoism and
its separative error; it is her attempt to turn from a necessary first
fragmentation towards a recovered oneness. All unity between
creatures is in its essence a self-finding, a fusion with that from
which we have separated, a discovery of one's self in others.
But it is only a divine love and unity that can possess in the light what the human forms of these things seek for in
the darkness. — Sri Aurobindo

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading — Bertrand Russell

I would contend that it is more accurate to say there's no good person or evil person among those who die...Many [Shin commentaries] say the good person relies on self-power in an effort to achieve birth in the Pure Land, while the evil person does not operate in that way. Various explanations are brought forth, but the peaceful composure of the faces of the dead are completely oblivious to these weary arguments. — Shinmon Aoki

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either. — John McCain

If you let the loss prevent the beauty, all is lost. — Esther Sharp

You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving. — Paul Kalanithi

Time was spinning numerous threads for its tapestry, some to be woven together, some to entangle or fray, others merely to perish and pass away. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection. — Robin S. Sharma

Oh my gods. The alpha of Clan Cat just got smacked with a rolled-up newspaper.
Mom! — Ilona Andrews

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? — Woody Allen