Spogliatoio Quotes & Sayings

Mother--that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. — T. DeWitt Talmage

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. — Lois McMaster Bujold

No one to trust. No friends. A life of silence broken only with music. — Sophie Jordan

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well. — Dave Morris

Percy (One) Our new dog, named for the beloved poet, ate a book which unfortunately we had left unguarded. Fortunately it was the Bhagavad Gita, of which many copies are available. Every day now, as Percy grows into the beauty of his life, we touch his wild, curly head and say, Oh, wisest of little dogs. — Mary Oliver

Imagining that you are going to come back to me is my favorite way to spend the day: a love story. I — Melissa Broder

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority. — Carroll Shelby

Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.
Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction. — Paulo Coelho

I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect. — Thomas Hardy

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. — John James Audubon

I may not be able to keep fighting for money ... but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am. — Nick Diaz

The lack of a husband was, for some applicants, a selling point. I imagine many of my readers are aware of the awkward position in which governesses often find themselves
or, rather, the awkward position into which their male employers often put them, for it does no one any service to pretend this happens by some natural and inexorable process, devoid of connection with anyone's behaviour. — Marie Brennan

For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it. — Etty Hillesum