Short Lovely Goodnight Quotes & Sayings

In the United States, 25 percent of all Medicare spending is for the 5 percent of patients who are in their final year of life, and most of that money goes for care in their last couple of months that is of little apparent benefit. — Atul Gawande

This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. Now, logically speaking, I know there is a difference. If you put elephants and ants before me, I believe that every time I will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. So metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. It comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant. — Natalie Goldberg

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return — Vilayat Inayat Khan

It's simple: when God is for you, who can be against you? — Ray Lewis

For a moment, I wondered if I should just tell her that she was a selfish, reckless girl who thought the world owed her something simply because she was pretty, and that I didn't want to be around when she discovered it didn't. — Robyn Schneider

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends. — Jack Kerouac

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies. — John R. Allen

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics. — Olga Korbut

Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor. — Anthony Marra

Most girls want the right guy. They aren't looking for a one-time thing. — H.M. Ward

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it. — Robert Henri