Sonbahar Yaprak Quotes & Sayings

I make my mistakes in public. — Shirley Maclaine

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them. — Alfred North Whitehead

The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be to just keep moving. — Pema Chodron

I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord. — Julian Ovenden

Displaced Person's Song

If you see a train this evening,
Far away, against the sky,
Lie down in your woolen blanket,
Sleep and let the train go by.

Trains have called us, every midnight,
From a thousand miles away,
Trains that pass through empty cities,
Trains that have no place to stay.

No one drives the locomotive,
No one tends the staring light,
Trains have never needed riders,
Trains belong to bitter night.

Railway stations stand deserted,
Rights-of-way lie clear and cold,
What we left them, trains inherit,
Trains go on, and we grow old.

Let them cry like cheated lovers,
Let their cries find only wind,
Trains are meant for night and ruin,
And we are meant for song and sin. — Thomas Pynchon

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. — Edward Everett Hale

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

I like that I can drive 15 hours from home without the world changing too much. — John Green

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words ... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them. — Freya Stark

the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams. And as I walked by the shallow crystal stream I saw unwonted ripples tipped with yellow light, as if those placid waters were drawn on in resistless currents to strange oceans that are not in the world. Silent and sparkling, bright and baleful, those moon-cursed waters hurried I knew not whither; whilst from the embowered banks white lotos-blossoms fluttered one by one in the opiate night-wind and dropped despairingly into the stream, swirling away horribly — H.P. Lovecraft

Faith define the fate of man. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones. — Ralph Stanley