Sfacciataggine Quotes & Sayings

Shama is quietude of mind, tranquility, equanimity, and composure. First, learn to compose yourself. Rather than expecting the external world to conform to your expectations, learn to expect the unexpected. Regard turmoil as normal and take worldly blows in stride. Expecting things to be perfect leads to disappointment. Disappointment and tranquility cannot coexist. — Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

He behaves as if he had no dead children. The real Leandro never comes here. He only pretends. — Barbara Kingsolver

At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases. The inventor of wine is called Liber, not from the license which he gives to our tongues but because he liberates the mind from the bondage of cares and emancipates it, animates it and renders it more daring in all that it attempts. — Seneca.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel]ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations. — Emma Donoghue

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today ... — John Lennon

Be careful,' Irene warned Miri. 'All boys want the same thing.'
So do girls, Miri thought. — Judy Blume

For God's sake, Mother," he said in an exasperated tone, "is there nothing dumb, daft or dangerous that you haven't tried at some point? — Jasper Fforde

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger. — Robert A. Heinlein

When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.' — Darin Erstad

Illegitimis nil carborundum. — Patricia Briggs