Skumjas Quotes & Sayings

Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it. — Isabella Stewart Gardner

I tell you everything."
"Nothing that matters. — Jonathan Franzen

Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of. — Mark Martin

What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different? — Charles Yu

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness" is the real reason you find it hard to get started — Robert M. Pirsig

Lies could run around the world before the truth could get its boots on. — Terry Pratchett

Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty;
it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe
and the ultimate grand design of creation. — Morihei Ueshiba

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. — David Levithan

In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of. — Muhammad

When you love something, it doesn't feel like work. — Natalie Massenet

Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception. — Rory Sutherland

Suicide by Alaska. — Dana Stabenow

He writes that synergism gives the "fallen creature . . . ability to control God's free and sovereign work of salvation." Then he audaciously associates all Christians who are not Calvinists with belief in this doctrine. White believes that the act of receiving (as in receiving God's grace) is a type of "work" that takes away from the sovereignty of God. He therefore concludes that a man's free will to receive the gospel somehow "controls God's work of salvation. — Micah Coate

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. — Laura Dern