Sedmicen Quotes & Sayings

Finding other methods to deal with what I feared in life, and how I perceivedmy own story, was now my new mission. First, I looked around at my life and worked out what needed to go. I had built up beliefs about myself, about others around me and about how the world worked that weren't conducive to a healthy mental state long-term. This needed to change. — Fearne Cotton

When life becomes too complicated and we feel overwhelmed, it's often useful just to stand back and remind ourselves of our overall purpose, our overall goal. When faced with a feeling of stagnation and confusion, it may be helpful to take an hour, an afternoon, or even several days to simply reflect on what it is that will truly bring us happiness, and then reset our priorities on the basis of that. This can put our life back in proper context, allow a fresh perspective, and enable us to see which direction to take. — Dalai Lama XIV

Hope, ... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion ... It's a law of motion, a fact of physics ... , no different from the stages of white dwarves and red giants. Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years. — Ian Caldwell

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

It seems to me that I grew younger daily with each adult habit that I acquired. I had lived a lonely childhood and a boyhood straitened by war and overshadowed by bereavement; to the hard bachelordom of English adolescence, the premature dignity and authority of the school system, I had added a sad and grim strain of my own. Now, that summer term with Sebastian, it seemed as though I was being given a brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood, and though its toys were silk shirts and liqueurs and cigars and its naughtiness high in the catalogue of grave sins, there was something of nursery freshness about us that fell little short of the joy of innocence. — Evelyn Waugh

It will be her turn soon to be teased," said Miss Lucas. "I am going to open the instrument, Eliza, and you know — Jane Austen

The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after. — Dianna Hardy

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back. — Fred Melamed

You wanted hearts and flowers. You have my heart - & here are the flowers. — Christian Grey

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. — Anne Frank

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs. — Carli Lloyd

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments. — Michael Korda

I would watch his footprints when he went and mourn him before he was gone. — Alice Hoffman