Somaro Manning Quotes & Sayings

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy. — Mark McKinney

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years. — Philipp Meyer

Flashlights would have been nice. Next adventure, Coralee was going to bring a flashlight. — Caitlin Rush

Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril. — James D. Doss

Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you. — Steve Maraboli

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. — Jean Baudrillard

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother's hands were sixty-four years old, weathered, beautiful. They were soft and hard and they held no duplicity of emotion. They didn't love and hate. They were not tender and violent. They never offered me the world and handed me hell. They were constant: I miss them purely. — Maggie MacKellar

I wanted to climb out of the swamp and run away somewhere. Somewhere where nobody knows me. Somewhere where I could start all over from the beginning. — Kanae Minato

All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it. — Dan Millman

The heart sends blood to every cell of the body, and in this way the cells are nourished. The same blood then flows back to the heart. If the flow is obstructed, the person will die. We need to learn this process of give and take from the heart. For the benefit of others, and also for ourselves, we should have the attitude of caring and sharing. We are all links in the chain of life. If one link is weakened, it will affect the strength of the whole chain. — Mata Amritanandamayi

I was not good
to the last person I loved
so I punished my heart
(I let it bleed out
then roughly sewed it back together) — Clementine Von Radics