Silbond Quotes & Sayings

It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing. The simple fact of existing, of living in time, can comprise a religious dimension. This dimension is not always obvious, since sacrality is in a sense camouflaged in the immediate, in the "natural" and the everyday. The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing - even fugitively - in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant. — Mircea Eliade

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else. — Samuel Johnson

I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful. — Alex Ebert

I've learned some things, and one of them is this...beating yourself up won't do you any good. Don't make a bad situation worse. — Ernie Lindsey

Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances. — Felix Dennis

Tell me, Astral, did you know? Did you know what would happen to him?
-Aurora — Candace Knoebel

"I like you," I whisper and immediately stare at my shoes. Of all the things I could have said, that shouldn't have been it. I. Am. An. Idiot.
A gentle tug on my hair sends goose bumps raining down my arms. I close my eyes and relish the sweet brush of his knuckles against my neck as he flips my hair over my shoulder. "Rachel?"
"Yes?" I say so softly he may not have heard me.
His hand caresses the sensitive spot right below my chin, and with a gentle pressure, Isaiah raises my head until I look into those warm silver eyes. "I like you, too."
The right side of my mouth quirks and a spring of hope bubbles up inside me. He likes me. A really hot, really awesome guy likes me. — Katie McGarry

This war's not over! Not by a long shot! --Enoch — S.R. Ford

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing. — Neale Donald Walsch

If you've got to think about it you probably shouldn't do it — Mary Carillo

Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I'm really too young to be feeling this old. — Drake

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend. — Jane Fonda

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first. — Cesare Pavese

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. — Ilya Ehrenburg

subalterns, when Sebastian bought his first commission — C.S. Harris