Skillfulness By Virtue Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. — Kay Redfield Jamison

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. — Craig Thompson

The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff. — Laura Prepon

As an index of social change, perhaps we should follow the popularity of the slap as some sort of measure of our belief in social hierarchy. The slap carries with it all the accumulated power of the past; it uses an entire social class as its accompanying army. As we relate to each other as individuals not necessarily embedded in our respective hierarchies, perhaps we will punch each other more frequently. In some truly ironic way, that might be good news. — Santosh Desai

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. — Mark Twain

There's something not quite Christian about it," Tony said. He sat back in his chair and looked up to where his Bible sat on the shelf. "I can't put my finger on why exactly, but it doesn't seem right for a couple of young ladies to be out there in the middle of the night, obsessing over their telescopes. — Joey Comeau

I learnt the lesson on non-violence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her, and in the end she became my teacher in non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. — Barry McGee