Step Back And Refocus Quotes & Sayings

To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control. — Alexandra Adornetto

Homosexuality is death, and I choose life. — Michael Glatze

I'm sick of people. The less I have to do with them for the rest of my life the better. I don't careif I die. — J.P. Donleavy

Damn what you like, Pieterzoon. But don't damn liquor. It's the stuff of life! — James Clavell

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself. — Norman Mailer

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing. — Carl Safina

I should have known that at the root of any mystery that's all you find: people doing unspeakable harm to other people. What else on this earth is there to hide? — Nick Dybek

Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy. — Manoj Bhargava

She thought men were saviors ...
... And she looked for more in them than what they were ...
Only to rescue herself from those she wished would rescue her ...
And isn't that the most tragic lie ...
The lie where we tell what we wished were true and believe it ... ?
She had an artificial memory, a prosthesis to a past that never was ...
She was like a party that no one ever went to ...
Like a cure ... without a disease ...
And isn't that the greatest fear of all ... to be ready with the answers
to questions that no one asks anymore? — Merrit Malloy

One cold shower in morning, is a great and unexpected from you. — Deyth Banger

Lord, You are my refuge and strong tower. You are my fortress and place of security and safety. Help me to live in that place of confidence and peace. Because I have made You, Lord, my refuge and my dwelling place, no evil shall befall me; no plague or calamity shall come near my home or my family. You give Your angels charge over me to accompany, defend, and preserve me in all my ways. Wherever I go and whatever I do, Your angels go with me to protect me from harm, injury, and evil. — Megan Provance

Only cactuses had perennial appeal. And cactuses were of no interest to her. — Milan Kundera

Usually you can only catch the Sasquatch blur of your own legendary moments in the side mirrors. — Joe Hill

It makes no sense. Please, help me. I need it to make sense. — Lisa Schroeder

I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people. — Marcus Samuelsson