Severne Convert Quotes & Sayings

The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence. — Duane Elgin

Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find George. Find him and be sure to tell him I forgot him. I want him to know I had my husband just the same and my children and my house like any other woman. A good house too and a good husband that I loved and fine children out of him. Better than I had hoped for even. Tell him I was given back everything he took away and more. Oh, no, oh, God, no, there was something else besides the house and the man and the children. Oh, surely they were not all? What was it? Something not given back... Her breath crowded down under her ribs and grew into a monstrous frightening shape with cutting edges; it bored up into her head, and the agony was unbelievable: Yes, John, get the Doctor now, no more talk, the time has come. — Katherine Anne Porter

Constantly look for the good in people and in situations. When you find it, tell the person. — Bob Proctor

Every poison is known by its antidote. — Krishna Udayasankar

Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work. — Gloria Copeland

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. — Sinclair Lewis

There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid. — Caroline Knapp

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master. — Ben Jonson

Hearts aren't as smart as heads. Ain't that the truth? — Melissa Foster

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about. — Antonia Bird

Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of it. Rather the opposite, she was like someone who'd risen to her full measure. — Sue Monk Kidd

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity. — Jamaica Kincaid

Fish and guests in three days are stale. — John Lyly

Compassionate people are boundaried people. — Brene Brown

Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I'm ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don't have dragon wings, I don't breathe fire, I'm only eight feet tall and I've never eaten a newborn that didn't have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What's yours? — Derek Landy