Somatically Aware Quotes & Sayings

On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world. — Brandon Sanderson

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. — James Baldwin

The End of the Raven
On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slanting
I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.
Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,
Poe was talking to a Raven perched above the chamber door.
'Raven's very tasty,' thought I, as I tiptoed o'er the floor.
'There is nothing I like more.'
[ ... ]
Still the Raven never fluttered, standing stock-still as he uttered
In a voice that shrieked and sputtered, his two cents' worth
'Nevermore.'
While this dirge the birdbrain kept up, oh, so silently I crept up,
Then I crouched and quickly leapt up, pouncing on the feathered bore.
Soon he was a heap of plumage, and a little blood and gore
Only this and not much more. — Henry N. Beard

The implants just give you a new set of reproductive-free imperatives, that's all. The rest, thank the gods, is up to you. They wouldn't be worth anything if they didn't give rise to the most troubling and complex problems of the heart. They are what makes all this glory, this madness worthwhile. We are born to the trouble as sparks fly upwards, that is what is great about us, man, woman, transgen, nute. — Ian McDonald

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive. — David Suzuki

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete — Kjiva

The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror. — Nancy Milford

I guess not being 'just like them' is a crime. — Lisa De Jong

Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism. — Richard Corliss

Faith is giving the divine a chance to act. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A man's ability to dream is the most sincere form of ambition he has in his arsenal, and the only true glimmer of one's self one has. And if one is to ever lose that ability, it's the same as losing one's self altogether. To reacquire this ability, to gain a new sense of 'self', one must first die ... only then can he be reborn, redefined, and ultimately rediscovered. — Dave Matthes