Seeking Solace Quotes & Sayings

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things. — Wayne Dyer

Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame — Bernard Kelvin Clive

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. — Hodding Carter

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best. — Jack Kirby

He is within and without: He lives in the live and the lifeless: Subtle beyond mind's grasp; so near to us, so utterly distant: Undivided, He seems to divide into objects and creatures; Send creation forth from Himself, He upholds and withdraws it; Light of all lights, He abides beyond our ignorant darkness; Knowledge, the one thing real we may study or know, the heart's dweller. — Swami Prabhavananda

If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure. — Carlos Castaneda

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion. — Stephen Harper

He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! - so much ease, with such perfect good breeding! — Jane Austen

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body. — Joseph Pilates

I joy, that in these straits I see my west; — John Donne

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable. — John Green

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope. — Widad Akreyi

Feeling like a winner.
There is no need for a race after all.
I just mastered how to walk
Differently this time. — Priscilla Koranteng

Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... — Muse

He'd push back with his arm and grin. When the back of his hand brushed mine and our pinkies met, I got the wiggles as bad as a girl with a boy band crush. — C.L.Stone

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. --John Woods comp.lang.c++ — Jeff Knupp

I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. — Hannah Ware