Sophronia Bourgeois Quotes & Sayings

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul. — Socrates

217. "We're only given as much as the heart can endure," "What does not kill you makes you stronger," "Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn": these are the kinds of phrases that enrage my injured friend. Indeed, one would be hard pressed to come up with a spiritual lesson that demands becoming a quadriparalytic. The tepid "there must be a reason for it" notion sometimes floated by religious or quasi-religious acquaintances or bystanders, is, to her, another form of violence. She has no time for it. She is too busy asking, in this changed form, what makes a livable life, and how she can live it. — Maggie Nelson

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance. — Michael Burgess

Non-use of rights does not destroy them. — Matilda Joslyn Gage

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. — David Hockney

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. — Jose Andres

Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now. You can go in there, but you don't live there anymore. — Richard Templar

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. — Robert Louis Stevenson

More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ.
This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life. — William Lane Craig

This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun. — David Green

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. — Roy Blount Jr.

Sometimes a person can smile when you are feeling only the difficulty of a thing and the problem unravels before your eyes and becomes straightforward. — Rachel Joyce

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made. — Susanna Clarke

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is. — David Miliband

In the front room, a two-story flutter, love notes from the German Frau's first marriage barely tethered to a structure so it shifted in the wind, one tiny home movie projected on each. A sculpture of marriage, marriage come alive.
Lancelot felt tears start to his eyes. It was so exactly right. The Germans saw the gleam, and both of them--like budgerigars on their perch--sidled up and hugged Lancelot around the waist. — Lauren Groff