Shachnow Quotes & Sayings

If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure it, to let it become something creative and positive that contributes to who you are. Nietzche said that one of the best days in his life was the day when he rebaptized all his negative qualities as his best qualities. Rather than banishing what is at first glimpse unwelcome, you bring it home to unity with your life ... ..One of your sacred duties is to exercise kindness towrd them. In a sense, you are called to be a loving parent to your delinquent qualiites — John O'Donohue

When I told the fans I was an alcoholic, they all applauded. When I told them I had given myself to a higher power, they cheered again. — Grace Lee Whitney

Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

... I touch your absence here
Remembering the speeches of your hair. — Carlos A. Angeles

I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far. — Erica Jong

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. — Khaled Hosseini

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education — Sai Baba

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made. — Immanuel Kant

Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether, it seems that the complete explanation of the whole matter is not given unless we are also informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, and next to which orbs of the Planets [the comet] traces its path, and by what course it accomplishes this. — Tycho Brahe

I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.' — Mona Simpson

In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God. — Fulton J. Sheen