Tenker Tens Quotes & Sayings

It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. — Sarah Dessen

He looks up, so slowly, gold lashes lifting to reveal more sadness and beauty that I've ever seen in the same moment. I didn't know a person could convey so much with just one look. There's extraordinary pain in him. Extraordinary passion. — Tahereh Mafi

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it. — Michael Crichton

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for. — Marianne Williamson

A little boy was leading his sister up a mountain path and the way was not too easy. "Why, this isn't a path at all," the little girl complained. "It's all rocky and bumpy." And her brother replied, "Sure, the bumps are what you climb on." That's a remarkable piece of philosophy. — Warren W. Wiersbe

It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move. — Julian Assange

Happy are men who yet before they are killed
Can let their veins run cold. — Wilfred Owen

Me and Mike, ve vork in mine,
Holy shit, ve have good time.
Vunce a veek ve get our pay,
Holy shit, no vork next day. — Kurt Vonnegut

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind. — Frederick Lenz

Don't be mean to yourself, though . . .this is the only sin. — Anne Lamott

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck. — Joey Logano

A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all. — J.D. Salinger

In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people. — Nelson Mandela

I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself. — Chelsea Handler