Takaoka City Quotes & Sayings

Don't go backwards - you've already been there. — Ray Charles

My soul spoke to me in a whisper, urgently and alarmingly: 'Words, words, do not make too many words. Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness, and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are all completely mired in madness?' "11 (2) Jung's soul: "There are hellish webs of words, only words . . . Be tentative with words, value them . . . for you are the first who gets snared in them. For words have meanings. With words you pull up the underworld. Word, the paltriest and the mightiest. In words the emptiness and the fullness flow together. Hence the word is an image of the God. — C. G. Jung

And she liked me. She liked me. She liked me. She liked me. Or at least, I think she did. I think she did. Etc. — Nick Hornby

This is real, and I didn't leave you alone. I have always loved you, and I will love you until the end of time. Now, wake up and live. — Tammy Blackwell

The suppression of suffering? Can I really have believed it, have believed that death merely strikes out what exists, and leaves everything else in its place, that it removes the pain from the heart of him for whom the other's existence has ceased to be anything but a source of pain, that it removes the pain and puts nothing in its place? The suppression of pain! — Marcel Proust

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind. — Daniel De Leon

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements. — George Bernard Shaw

Thor's mighty chariot rides across the sky, and lightning is caused by hurling his great hammer, Mjolnir. — Rick Riordan

We no longer find out identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination. — Brandan Roberston

I have yet to understand the ritual of sacrifice in monotheism; to a supposed Creator who has supposedly given us what we will be eventually sacrificing.
If I take a small mirror and reflect sunlight back to the sun, am I sacrificing to the sun? — Haroutioun Bochnakian

We often learn to just earn dirty paper and forget to gain the wisdom needed to earn a life. — Debasish Mridha

Naked I felt as if my soul was exposed, my thoughts could be read. In the mask I felt protected. I eased the elastic strap over my head, adjusted the fascia to my cheekbones and glanced again at the mirror. The acid in my tummy had gone. Masked I am me. Masked I can do anything. — Chloe Thurlow

Writers fly with imaginary wings. — Melody Robinette

How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him. — Lewis B. Smedes