Stair And Landing Quotes & Sayings

Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough. — Brene Brown

Just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. — Jodi Picoult

Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think. — Larry Ellison

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. — Robert M. Pirsig

Men at Forty"

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

At rest on a stair landing,
They feel it
Moving beneath them now like the deck of a ship,
Though the swell is gentle.

And deep in mirrors
They rediscover
The face of the boy as he practices trying
His father's tie there in secret

And the face of that father,
Still warm with the mystery of lather.
They are more fathers than sons themselves now.
Something is filling them, something

That is like the twilight sound
Of the crickets, immense,
Filling the woods at the foot of the slope
Behind their mortgaged houses. — Donald Justice

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. — Winona Ryder

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. — Pete Rose

The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror."
"One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie. — Julie Kagawa

Glory to the the Great God! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking. — Derek Magyar

I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is. — Gayle Forman

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. — Michelle Obama

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me. — Stanley Kubrick