Serendipity Pinterest Quotes & Sayings

Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul. — Melina Marchetta

Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's property, because they are accomplishing something for him, slothful and shameful though it be. And what is a lost soul? Is it not one that God cannot use, or one that cannot use God? Trustless, prayerless, fruitless, loveless
is it not so far lost? So may a man have a soul that is lost and be dead while he lives. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment. — Jonas Mekas

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life. — Charles Dickens

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional — Barbara Johnson

Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim? — Mary Cantwell

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings — George Whitefield

Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good. — Blake Mycoskie

This time, I wanted to enjoy the passion that burned between us until we were both about to combust. — Lisa Kessler

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8. — Meryl Streep

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. — Thomas A. Edison

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had. — Uri Geller