Shauntia Quotes & Sayings

He waited until they were driving to work before he mentioned the morning field trip. "Why do a field trip?" Meg asked. "Because someone untied its shoes?" Meg frowned. "That makes no sense." "It makes as much sense as most human jokes." "That's true." Simon — Anne Bishop

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. — Sharon Salzberg

If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth. — Thomas Aquinas

Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be. — Yotam Ottolenghi

When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is — Og Mandino

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it. — Larry McMurtry