Sukeforth Charitable Foundation Quotes & Sayings

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. — Thomas Merton

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It — G.K. Chesterton

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. — William Faulkner

Surviving is what most of us just do. To live and to be loved, needs courage and be loving, in that order. — Magith Noohukhan

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal. — Neil Postman

Stop the goddamn bus--I have to throw up. — Robert Leland Taylor

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. — Mitch Albom

All things want to float. — Rainer Maria Rilke

My life, I resolved, ought to be a perpetual transcending, a progression from stage to stage; I wanted it to pass through one area after the next, leaving each behind, as music moves on from theme to theme, from tempo to tempo, playing each out to the end, completing each and leaving it behind, never tiring, never sleeping, forever wakeful, forever in the present. In connection with the experiences of awakening, I had noticed that such stages and such areas exist, and that each successive period in one's life bears within itself, as it is approaching its end, a note of fading and eagerness for death. That in turn leads to a shifting to a new area, to awakening and new beginnings. — Hermann Hesse

Until I'm over the hill and over the hump;
I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want. — Aceyalone