Siebenbuerger Quotes & Sayings

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will. — Eckhart Tolle

On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together. — Gregory Pardlo

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be. — Tyra Banks

Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow. — Bill Kreutzmann

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. — Billy Graham

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job! — Christy Hall

At the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up. — Saint Augustine

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else. — Patti Smith

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires. — Vandana Shiva

What I like best is walking with my hands in my pockets, having the Doorman next to me, and imagining that Audrey's on my other side.
I always picture us from behind. — Markus Zusak

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less. — Plutarch

I don't think it is too good especially with music to worry about authenticity, it can get in the way of doing something which comes naturally from your own head which is the most authentic thing [of all]. — Andrew VanWyngarden

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world. — S.E. Hinton