Shonnie Spina Quotes & Sayings

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self. — Gore Vidal

I believe in you," he says, his voice hushed and almost reverent. "That's more faith than I ever thought I'd have. — Ally Condie

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all. — Anne Stuart

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

God loves you just as you are, but He loves you too much to leave you just as you are. — George Foster

Educate thyself through reading — Ann Shannon

Are you paying me a compliment? I just want to be sure, so I don't miss it."
"You make it sound like I'm mean and horrible because I don't throw myself at your feet."
"You don't have to throw yourself at my feet. Although if you want, I'm sure I can think of something for you to do while you're down there. — M. Leighton

Our lips now conjoin like the glittery coils of a wet snake dancing in the amazon. Kissing Nadia sends me into a savoring affair for that which is most delectable, always tasting the delicate layers that exist in her myriad of emotion. Always, Nadia's opulent lips gratify and subdue by easing my sensitivity as she drags her fingers down my stomach like a tree scattering its roots. I now brush my lips over Nadia's, dipping into her mouth like a brush that falls into a bucket of paint, osculating under this euphoric form of affection. — Luccini Shurod

Follow your dreams, don't let anybody hold you back. — Randa Markos

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth. — Margaret Weis

What this feeling produced was, quite simply, a keen awareness of the nature of human sin. That is what sent me back each month to K's grave. It is also what lay behind the nursing of my dying mother-in-law, and what bade me treat my wife so tenderly. There were even times when I longed for some stranger to come along and flog me as I deserved. At some stage this feeling transformed into a conviction that it should be I who hurt myself. And then the thought struck me that I should not just hurt myself but kill myself. At all events, I resolved that I must live my life as if I were already dead. — Soseki Natsume

When you have understood the piece of the world you want to change, and aligned your will with the world as it actually is, then and only then can you begin to change it; — Steven Brust

The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self - deception. — Bodhidharma

Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness. — Michio Kushi