Sipionam Quotes & Sayings

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. — Jeanette Winterson

When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your life called 'outer', now try to look at another aspect of the journey called 'inner'. You have been running after money, now run after meditation. You have been running after power, now run after God. Both are running. Once you start running after meditation then one day I will tell you, 'Now drop meditation too. Now stop running.' And when you stop running then real meditation happens. — Rajneesh

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

That big fat oaf Gil Chesterton once said that the criminal is the artist, the detective only the critic ... he was wrong. I was an artist, for it is an artist's purpose to make order out of chaos. A criminal defaces; a detective restores. — Lavie Tidhar

The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go. — Mary E. DeMuth

Famously, I'm somewhat impatient. — Gordon Brown

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike. — Koren Zailckas

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries. — Chandra Wilson

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. — Joseph Roux