Sommerfeldt Pantograph Quotes & Sayings

You can not take down the master's house with the master's tools
Audre Lorde — Audre Lorde

You don't survive in me
because of memories;
nor are you mine because
of a lovely longing's strength.
What does make you present
is the ardent detour
that a slow tenderness
traces in my blood.
I do not need
to see you appear;
being born sufficed for me
to lose you a little less. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing. — Epictetus

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer. — Mary Oliver

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive. — Christina Baldwin

I can't be the center of your world, Kieli; it just won't do. I mean, if you stay like this, I wouldn't be able to go anywhere. I'll never be able to leave you behind again. Once I'm gone, what are you going to do?! — Yukako Kabei

In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time. — Marcus Dunstan

The "etiquette of freedom," to use poet Gary Snyder's phrase. It encompasses small acts like teaching your children to be honest in their dealings with others. It includes serving on community councils and as soccer coaches. It means leaving a place in better shape than you found it. It means helping others during hard times and being able to ask for help. It means resisting the temptation to call a problem someone else's. — Eric Liu

A child needs your love the most when he deserves it least. — Erma Bombeck

Beautiful hands are those that do
Work in earnest and brave and true
Moment to Moment
All day through — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time. — Luanne Rice