Siekerka Quotes & Sayings

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me. — Mark Lawrence

People see the cleverness of nature and suppose it's the cleverness of the animal itself but it was obvious to me that each and every segment of the animal isn't aware. How much I'd hate to live totally unaware of myself, I thought. What would be the point of living, of existing, if you weren't ever to know about it? I looked at the Fox Moth and pitied it, poor unconscious creature. But then, I supposed, at least it wouldn't be disappointed. It would never find out. — Poppy Adams

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show. — Ariel Pink

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'. — Audrey Hepburn

Do not make too much haste on one's road. — Chilon Of Sparta

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent. — Ursula Goodenough

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly. — Emily Oster