Squaring Up Quilt Quotes & Sayings

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world. — Lori Lansens

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation. — Margaret Atwood

I seemed to perceive that my problem - that what I had to do to prepare myself for getting into contact with her, was just to get back into contact with life. I had been kept for twelve years in a rarefied atmosphere; what I then had to do was a little fighting with real life, some wrestling with men of business, some travelling amongst larger cities, something harsh, something masculine. — Ford Madox Ford

Harmony is boring. — Henry Rollins

Memory is the enemy of wonder — Michael Pollan

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties. — Lauren DeStefano

Death frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that someday death will come to us. It is a thought we try to push from our minds. We are uncomfortable when another's death rudely intrudes into our lives and reminds us of what we will face at some unknown future date. Death reminds us that we are creatures. Yet as fearsome as death it is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God. When we encounter Him, the totality of our creatureliness breaks upon us and shatters the myth that we have believed about ourselves, the myth that we are demigods, junior-grade deities, who will try to live forever. — R.C. Sproul