Short Overcoming Obstacles Quotes & Sayings

Guess what, Avery?" "What?" I wondered if he could see how fast my heart was beating beneath my shirt. "Remember how you just said you were having a good time?" Cam lowered his head so that our mouths were scant inches apart. "It's about to get better." "Is it?" He shifted his head and his nose grazed mine. "Oh, yeah." "Are you not going to kiss me again?" His lips tipped up. "That's exactly what I'm going to do. — J. Lynn

Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble. — Nikki Sixx

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older. — Alison Bechdel

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step. — Nhat Hanh

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. — Cory Doctorow

We have a tradition in Tibet. Sacred craziness. Men and women who act in a strange way. People think they are fools, but their wisdom, in fact, is more than those we call normal. — Roland Merullo

In the country whereto I go
I shall not see the face of my friend
Nor her hair the color of sunburnt grasses;
Together we shall not find
The land on whose hills bends the new moon
In air traversed of birds.
What have I thought of love?
I have said, "It is beauty and sorrow."
I have thought that it would bring me lost delights, and splendor
As a wind out of old time ...
But there is only the evening here,
And the sound of willows
Now and again dipping their long oval leaves in the water.
from "Betrothed — Louise Bogan

There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, [ ... ]; and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors. — Vladimir Nabokov

What the scientists are apt to forget: the difference between quantity and quality is one of quality, not of -quantity. — Nanamoli Thera

"Doctor, my leg hurts. What can I do?" The doctor says, "Limp!" — Henny Youngman