Spradling Elementary Quotes & Sayings

We are all wonderful souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Being bold and adventurous and being sad and cautious seem like opposite personality types. However, these two paths to addiction are actually not mutually exclusive. The third way involves having both kinds of traits, where people alternatively fear and desire novelty and behavior swings from being impulsive and rash to being compulsive, fear driven, and stuck in rigid patterns. This is where some of the contradictions that have long confounded the study of addiction come into play - namely, some aspects seem precisely planned out, while others are obviously related to lack of restraint. My own story spirals around this paradoxical situation: I was driven enough to excel academically and fundamentally scared of change and of other people - yet I was also reckless enough to sell cocaine and shoot heroin. — Maia Szalavitz

The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home. — J.R. Ward

I think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg. — Christian Finnegan

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Make a wish,
Open your eyes,
Live your dream... — Jose N. Harris

We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste. — Vance Havner

What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

The smallest component of the human molecule is a vibration - the equivalent to a musical note. Taking the time to learn more self-awareness at this level creates life experiences beyond that of all the greatest symphonies ever heard — Gary Hopkins

Unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments of religious and artistic inspiration that occur ever less and less often as a Culture grows older) right — Oswald Spengler

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? — Percy Bysshe Shelley